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Longstreet just forgot to take his PR man with him.
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Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
In the church of Saint Robert E. Lee, it is not possible for Bobby Lee to have done anything wrong. So somebody had to be blamed for the defeat at Gettysburg. So old Pete got the blame. The truth is Lee's tactics were faulty. Lee knew it and he never blamed Longstreet.
__________________ 'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
With defeat, Lee was the only remaining general to honor.
Poor Lee marched his entire army into Adams County, a county with too few farms with too little forage for his huge army and too few wells to supply water for long.
With too little forage and water for such a large army, the Union had a blocking action, that forced Lee to attack.
We "honor" Gettysburg for the battle that was fought there. We should never think well of Gettysburg as some kind of logistics center.
Gettysburg was a good place for the Confederate army to wind up dead.
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