Lee was spectacular except at Gettysburg. Had he taken the high ground immediately upon arriving history might have changed radically. Even without taking the high ground then they almost pulled it off had it not been for Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine...Pickett’s charge wouldn’t have been necessary...more’s the pity.
In case I forget, or am not around anymore....
John Buford’s 186th birthday anniversary is 4 Mar 2012.
agree with all of that, I have thought of that day thousands of times in my head about the if’s.
When it comes down to it Lee should not have stayed and had a fight but those days it were different, men wanted a fight not like many pansy men today we see a colleges etc plus it was hard when his forward regiments had engages and Stewart had not been reporting back.
In the end it was a series of blunders sadly.
Ever thought if that battle had not took place and he had got to deliver the letter?
another thing , sorry but to add.
The bravery of those men was astounding and on the 150th anniversary I will hopefully be going across that field .
If the Southern political class hadn't taken the selfish and stupid decision to lie, cheat and rabble rouse their states into secessions which were generally fraudulent expressions of the people's will, the whole war would not have been necessary in the first place and many thousands of good and brave men on both sides would not have been killed and injured.