To: StarfireIV
Longstreet knew what was coming...for some reason Lee didn’t.
To: mainepatsfan
Let's be fair... We only have Longstreet's claim that Gettysburg was lost because the Napoleonic genius of General James Longstreet could not overcome the obstinate stupidity of Robert Edward Lee.
That claim has been tremendously helped by The Killer Angels and Gettysburg.
117 posted on
07/01/2007 10:53:21 AM PDT by
carton253
(And if that time does come, then draw your swords and throw away the scabbards.)
To: mainepatsfan
Yes he did. The only things that rendered his defensive tactics obsolete were tanks and airplanes. Lee’s heart trouble was affecting him more and more and the loss of Jackson and independent thinkers like him still didn’t sink in.
134 posted on
07/01/2007 1:18:25 PM PDT by
StarfireIV
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