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To: Badeye
Thats absurd in the extreme. He suspected he would be fighting for the very life of the ANV before he could recross the Potomac, knew the river was rising due to the rains, and knew he had to get the hell out of enemy territory after the disaster we call Picketts Charge.

If that were true then why devote the troops to getting those wagons of supplies confiscated from the civilian population of Pennsylvania? Lee made sure that the wagons were well underway and guarded before pulling back from Gettysburg. And in the process he left tens of thousands of wounded behind. A calculated decision on his part.

He also knew the medical treatment his troops would receive if they were left behind would exceed what his own doctors could provide, given they exhausted their medical supplies over the course of the campaign.

Lee took his wounded with him after Antietam, he didn't after Gettysburg. The reason is obvious.

To suggest he left his own wounded in favor of ‘supplies’ is ridiculous, completely inaccurate, and ill informed as to ‘how things worked’ in that era.

I suppose that this is another one of those subjects where you know the data involved intimately. Even more than men like Kent Brown who wrote whole books on the subject.

216 posted on 07/13/2007 1:38:12 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Your supposition is only correct in regards to yourself, as the threads demonstrate conclusively.


234 posted on 07/16/2007 5:39:49 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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