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Having said that, things could've had a decisively different outcome if REL had listened to Longstreet. All his other accomplishments notwithstanding, coming across that much open ground was madness.

Totally agree. I have been to Gettysburg and stood looking across that field and thought to myself, what kind of men were these who would cross that field in the open against withering fire? It certainly was a different time and age that's for sure.

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I have been to Gettysburg and stood looking across that field and thought to myself, what kind of men were these who would cross that field in the open against withering fire?

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I’ll be on the Normandy coast in a few months. The same kind of men operated there.