Sep 20, 2017 at 10:11 PM -
nitrofd: He was also very indesicive.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:11 PM -
Jimklag: Heck. Before Rosecrans crossed, Wheeler only had 500 men covering 90 miles of river.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:12 PM -
nitrofd: Forrest was too far away and Wheeler did nothing
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:12 PM -
Harris: Yeah I was struck by that passage in the book
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:12 PM -
Harris: Very strung out
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:13 PM -
Harris: Sorry gang, gotta go. I look forward to next week
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:14 PM -
nitrofd: Enjoyed your presence
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:14 PM -
Jimklag: Rosecrans seems to have handled his end of things well. Bragg didn't.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:14 PM -
Pat Young: I think that the functioning of the army had become very painful to Bragg
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:14 PM -
Jimklag: See ya Harris.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:15 PM -
Pat Young: Hess wrote that he should hav e left the army months earlier
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:15 PM -
nitrofd: June to sept.10th was Rosecrans shinning moment
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:15 PM -
Jimklag: I'm thinking his but was getting painful in that saddle.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:16 PM -
Pat Young: Rosecrans was a decent general who had one very bad day
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:16 PM -
Pat Young: In terms of organization, logistics, etc, Tullahoma went as well as could have been hoped
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:16 PM -
Jimklag: Spoiler alert - He had one bad couple hours.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:17 PM -
Pat Young: More than a couple of hours
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:17 PM -
Pat Young: But that is for volume 2
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:17 PM -
nitrofd: He is a tough character to really understand
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:17 PM -
Drew: We're way ahead of our reading assignment but I think Rosecrans had more than just a bad day.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:18 PM -
Pat Young: Spoiler Alert, a large part of Volume 3 is an essay by Frank Varney
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:18 PM -
Jimklag: Back to chapters one & two. Rosecrans was indeed hard to fathom.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:19 PM -
Pat Young: How so?
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:20 PM -
Jimklag: Just an odd duck. Lots of idiosyncracies.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:20 PM -
nitrofd: For him everything had to be 100% perfect,that's why it took so long to move on Bragg even with all the threats from Stanton
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:21 PM -
Jimklag: Remind you a little of Buell and Little Mac?
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:22 PM -
Drew: Rosecrans was probably overconfident. He knew he had a larger force and where the Confederate supply lines were.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:22 PM -
nitrofd: Just like Lil mac,but Rosey was more realistic
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:23 PM -
Jimklag: His objective was Rome, GA. to cut the A&W and force Bragg to retreat.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:24 PM -
Drew: The Union Army to this point had a pretty good record of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:24 PM -
Jimklag: Not in the western theater.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:24 PM -
Pat Young: Folks are getting ahead of the chapters, but are blaming him for Longstreet's arrival?
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:25 PM -
Pat Young: Without Longstreet, Rosy had good reason for confidence
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:26 PM -
Pat Young: I have to get going
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:26 PM -
Pat Young: Nice to be here for opening night
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:26 PM -
nitrofd: Thanks pat
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:26 PM -
Jimklag: Longstreet is mentioned in chapter 2. But only mentioned.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:27 PM -
Jimklag: Take it easy Pat.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:28 PM -
Drew: Rosy apparently didn't consider the possibility of a reinforced Confederate AoT. Whoops.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:29 PM -
Drew: Seriously, relax. It's early in the book yet.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:30 PM -
nitrofd: The first two chapters really deal with the structure of both armies.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:31 PM -
Drew: That's right Nitro(,
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:31 PM -
Jimklag: Like I said earlier. I had read many times about the dysfunction in the AoP officer corps, but had no idea how bad it really was.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:31 PM -
Drew: And the politics of the Armies
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:31 PM -
Jimklag: AoT. sorry
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:31 PM -
nitrofd: I was wondering about that
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:32 PM -
Jimklag: Seems like Garfield is going to be fun to follow.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:32 PM -
nitrofd: Also include Dana
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:33 PM -
Jimklag: Yes Dana too.
Sep 20, 2017 at 10:37 PM -
Jimklag: On the other side, Leonidas Polk and Wharton