[Badeye]

‘Actually, they would have been driving the remnants of a routed Union cavalry force into those positions from the east and behind. Of course it would have taken them probably 20 minutes longer than was needed, or never minutes, if their horses were blown.’

Really? And where, pray tell, was this invisible Union Cavalry in front of the Union line that afternoon?

Sorry, that makes no sense at all. You honestly think Meade would have moved his cavalry ‘front and center’ in the middle of the barrage?

Come on, thats ridiculous on multiple levels.

[an amused spectator]

The Union cavalry force was about 3 miles to the east. Stuart was attempting to flank the Union right, and if he had broken the Union cavalry (on the Union right flank), it would have fled westward and southward, and some of those fleeing would have most likely ended up crashing into the main Union line from its right flank, and behind.

Like I posited in my original post.

I said nothing about Union cavalry in front of the Union line. Why did you?