General Lee should’ve gone to the right on round top and rolled up the flank as General Hood implored him to do...
I’ve mentioned this before.. I took a tour of the USMA West Point 20 or so years ago, and I was actually taken aback that no statues out on the grounds were of any graduated Confederate generals. In USMA vocabulary the Confederates were the enemy.
After reading history and opinion on General Lee I have come to the conclusion that he didn’t really leave the union to join the Confederacy, he left the Union Army so that he could go to Virginia and try to ensure that the aristocracy of Virginia was left intact. Which I think he rather succeeded in.
Or, quietly swung around and positioned himself between the Union Army and DC, thus forcing it to attack him..... lots of good decent creeks and higher ground from Hanover.... Westminster and so forth.
By law the soldiers of the confederacy are US military veterans, and their monuments are monuments to US military veterans.
Interesting.
On my national anthems playlist, "Dixie" is played by the USMA Band, released in 1991.
Times have changed.
Agree. Pickett’s Charge was folly against Federal artillery, and the high ground.
I may be in a minority, but I think Lee should have fought for the Union...as he swore he would do on the Plain at West Point...he resigned his commission to fight for Virginia...