Yet Another Civil War Thread, Command Edition

[JTrainDavis]

Do you think Lee was attempting to pull an Austerlitz on the Second Day at Gettysburg?

I don't think so, i just think Marse Robert had become used to things falling in his direction. The original plan of a pinscher attack on the Federal flanks was not a bad idea, naturally, but, as anyone who has walked the grounds (i do 2 times a year) knows, the hills on the ends of the federal lines were quite steep, not ridges or inclines, but they go up sharply. Not easy heights from which to dislodge an enemy fighting for his homeland.

An extra division on either flank may have carried the day for Lee, as, with both the northern and southern assaults, he was close to taking the AoP from the rear.

I think Lee figured that, as the Federal Army had crumbled before the likes of Early, Hood, McClaws, Rodes before, they would do it again. I don't think Lee was going for the greatest tactical victory in history, he was just going what had worked before.

As a matter of fact, i think, that had Sickles not disobeyed orders and fought the bloody engagements in the Peach Orchard and Wheatfield, that Longstreet's Assault may well have carried the Federal Left.

 

[Plano Vol]

I knew a heart surgeon in Raleigh that said Lee suffered from congestive heart failure at Gettysburg and was not hitting on all cylinders during the battle.

Anyone heard that Lee was ill during the period?

 

[BigPapaVol]

I knew a heart surgeon in Raleigh that said Lee suffered from congestive heart failure at Gettysburg and was not hitting on all cylinders during the battle.

Anyone heard that Lee was ill during the period?

it's true, but not a particularly good excuse. he lived several years after the battle and had the same condition during his previous "successes"