OpnDownfall
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Dan Sickles; Union Savior?
Assuming the two Corps are in position to reinforce immediately. Was the Cemetary Ridge Line reconstituted before the battle ended because of darkness? Another hour of daylight and would there have been anything to reinforce?
Again, if past events are prologue, then the history of the Civil War was that a Full Blooded assault on an army's flanks were seldom withstood.
Given the experiences of the AoP and it's officer corps and the ANV and its officer corps, especially their respective commanders, would probably, lead to the same result; what happened to Sickles forward position would have happened (more or less) in his original position, except, it would have occurred 'In' the Union MLR rather than in 'Front' of it.
P.S. as an example of theory vs reality, LRT was a prime tactical and strategic position, yet it was mostly ignored by most of the higher ups in both armies.
Assuming the two Corps are in position to reinforce immediately. Was the Cemetary Ridge Line reconstituted before the battle ended because of darkness? Another hour of daylight and would there have been anything to reinforce?
Again, if past events are prologue, then the history of the Civil War was that a Full Blooded assault on an army's flanks were seldom withstood.
Given the experiences of the AoP and it's officer corps and the ANV and its officer corps, especially their respective commanders, would probably, lead to the same result; what happened to Sickles forward position would have happened (more or less) in his original position, except, it would have occurred 'In' the Union MLR rather than in 'Front' of it.
P.S. as an example of theory vs reality, LRT was a prime tactical and strategic position, yet it was mostly ignored by most of the higher ups in both armies.