Nicely written - you have capture it... must be series...
Sorry that should my first comment.. you just the well-spring... try to get this engagement on alt S/M platform - don't happen. Low on VP (30 + hour recharge will later)
looking for shoes, i am too weary to write, but I will be back, of all the engagements of the ACW- this one I know (well I think i do)... I end with this pic for now...
First brigade - sons of old Virginia...July 3rd mustered position At 3 p.m., Pickett’s charge”
Picketts charge was just silly...
I think Lee's recent spill off his horse, must have knocked the sense out of him !
As Shelby Foote wrote in his great work- Pickett's charge was the price the south paid for Robert E. Lee. The south's turning point - there be no cessation of arms ...well
A colossal military blunder. General Longstreet tried but out of his reverence for Lee... he knew this would fail, the British Col liaison knew this was sheer folly but admired the southern spirit.... I will come back later this is rich subject.
A relative of John Harrison, Englishman inventor of the nautical chronometer of longitude at sea, was a rebel spy and picked-up a weapon and fell in ranks. I believe he survived July 3rd.
will return..Thanks