This day in history.

[razpsu]

Day 2 battle of Gettysburg.
Union holds off confederate assault and keeps high ground on day 1.

Longstreet attacks on right in an enchelon move and confederates nearly win the day but Anderson does not deploy full division and ewell does not attack early enough to take advantage of union troops moved to support left. Hancock is brilliant and Minnesota gave its all!!
Great book here in day 2. For me one of the most important days of the civil war.
Gettysburg--The Second Day (Civil War America)
https://a.co/d/6IMyRrj

 

[step.eng69]

My son was born, I was having class in the Hammond engineering building when I was notified

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

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[Tgar]

1994 Shoreline. Get groovy.

 

[razpsu]

Was Dan sickles brilliant or stupid. Dan sickles moved his Corp out of line exposing the flanks up to emmitsburg road. Longstreet ran right into his Corp and sickles Corp was devastated. But because they moved up they through advancing Corp of Longstreet into chaos. They fought bravely. Had sickles stayed in line his Corp would have been pushed back and turned and would have fallen back upon itself and as lee planned.
Sickles losing a leg carried off in a stretcher lights up a cigar and puffs away so his men knows he is alive.

 

[Nitt1300]

Was Dan sickles brilliant or stupid. Dan sickles moved his Corp out of line exposing the flanks up to emmitsburg road. Longstreet ran right into his Corp and sickles Corp was devastated. But because they moved up they through advancing Corp of Longstreet into chaos. They fought bravely. Had sickles stayed in line his Corp would have been pushed back and turned and would have fallen back upon itself and as lee planned.
Sickles losing a leg carried off in a stretcher lights up a cigar and puffs away so his men knows he is alive.

I can't remember where I read it, but a contemporary of Sickles said that the rebel sniper who shot him saved a lot of Union lives.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[PSU87]

Was Dan sickles brilliant or stupid. Dan sickles moved his Corp out of line exposing the flanks up to emmitsburg road. Longstreet ran right into his Corp and sickles Corp was devastated. But because they moved up they through advancing Corp of Longstreet into chaos. They fought bravely. Had sickles stayed in line his Corp would have been pushed back and turned and would have fallen back upon itself and as lee planned.
Sickles losing a leg carried off in a stretcher lights up a cigar and puffs away so his men knows he is alive.

I'll go with stupid.
"Had sickles stayed in line his Corp would have been pushed back and turned and would have fallen back upon itself"....perhaps, but by no means a certainty. Culps Hill and Little Round Top held off continued Confederate attacks on day 2 without falling back, so it is certainly possible that III Corp would have held their original position just fine without the carnage of the Wheat Field and the Peach Orchard.
We will never know for certain, and these what ifs are always fun to debate.

I read an interesting take on Gettysburg where rhe author says Little Round Top was a worthless objective that cost the Confederates dearly....which really flies in the face of all the conventional wisdom. His rationale was between the rocky slope and the wooded crest there is room for only a HANDFUL of guns. Not enough guns to matter in the grand scheme of the battle, and not worth the cost the Rebels paid in trying to take it.

For anyone who has ever been up there....you look at the limited space for cannon that would cover the rest of the line and you wonder if he might be right.

 

[razpsu]

I'll go with stupid.
"Had sickles stayed in line his Corp would have been pushed back and turned and would have fallen back upon itself"....perhaps, but by no means a certainty. Culps Hill and Little Round Top held off continued Confederate attacks on day 2 without falling back, so it is certainly possible that III Corp would have held their original position just fine without the carnage of the Wheat Field and the Peach Orchard.
We will never know for certain, and these what ifs are always fun to debate.

I read an interesting take on Gettysburg where rhe author says Little Round Top was a worthless objective that cost the Confederates dearly....which really flies in the face of all the conventional wisdom. His rationale was between the rocky slope and the wooded crest there is room for only a HANDFUL of guns. Not enough guns to matter in the grand scheme of the battle, and not worth the cost the Rebels paid in trying to take it.

For anyone who has ever been up there....you look at the limited space for cannon that would cover the rest of the line and you wonder if he might be right.

If you ever drive, get Shelby footes “stars In their courses”. He notes so many things that because of them most by accident or decisions made let to the battle’s end. Great audio for long drives.

 

[SleepyLion]

Some of us still throw 3 day parties and thank God every day that we live in The USA!

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

My son was born, I was having class in the Hammond engineering building when I was notified

Your son shares a birthday with my son…happy day to both!

 

[step.eng69]

Your son shares a birthday with my son…happy day to both!

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