Feb 6, 2017 at 9:45 PM -
Pat Young: lol
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:45 PM -
Pat Young: that Muleshoe salient is not a very large area
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:46 PM -
bdtex: In the beginning he said Meade's lack of cavalry going in to Spotsylvania cost thousands of lives but I don't think he followed up on that.
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:46 PM -
JerseyBart: And that Phil Sheridan was awful
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:46 PM -
Pat Young: Yes, without a lot of backing for his argument
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:47 PM -
MaryDee: Yes, nice to know that somebody besides Eric Wittenberg and myself think that!
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:47 PM -
bdtex: "Most overrated general of the war"
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:47 PM -
JerseyBart: He and/or his men were asleep in the field.
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:48 PM -
MaryDee: He took off after JEB Stuart and then took the long way around coming back; the battle was over before the cavalry returned.
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:48 PM -
Jamieva: hello all
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:48 PM -
Jamieva: sorry im late
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:48 PM -
MaryDee: Hi, Jamie!
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:49 PM -
Jamieva: chris writes a lot for the emerging cw series and does lectures with them so im sure he and eric know each other
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:49 PM -
Pat Young: I wondered why he didn't say more about the failure to exploit the breakthrough by the IICorps at the Muleshoe.
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:49 PM -
bdtex: Weigh in Jamie
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:49 PM -
Jamieva: i laughed when he made his sheridan comment
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:49 PM -
Jamieva: i thought it was a really good talk
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:49 PM -
JerseyBart: Hi Jamie.
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:49 PM -
bdtex: The "most overrated" comment?
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:49 PM -
Jamieva: hey jb
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:50 PM -
Jamieva: yes the overrated comment
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:50 PM -
bdtex: It was funny
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:51 PM -
Jamieva: his commentary on the state of the battlefield is very accurate
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:51 PM -
Jamieva: spotsylvania is pretty much untouched, very few monuments
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:51 PM -
Jamieva: very quiet
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:51 PM -
bdtex: I had' known the part about Ewell convincing Lee he could hold the Muleshoe with more artillery.
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:52 PM -
bdtex: That is what I like K
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:53 PM -
bdtex: Jamie not K
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:53 PM -
JerseyBart: Another quiet battlefield, as it should be now.
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:53 PM -
Jamieva: and that is in contrast to the wilderness and chancellorsville which are very close by but have a lot of traffic and car noise at many of their spots
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:54 PM -
Jamieva: jb if you have never been there i recommend it. you can go to bloody angle and its eerily quiet
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:55 PM -
bdtex: Making me wanna plan a trip this year.
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:56 PM -
Pat Young: If you study a soldier who fought there it is pretty easy to figure out where he was
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:56 PM -
JerseyBart: I definitely want to tour Virginia's battlefields soon.
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:58 PM -
Jamieva: you should jb but we have a lot of them so plan plenty of time
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:58 PM -
bdtex: I recall from the video that it was the piecemeal nature of the attacks that thwarted Meade
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:58 PM -
JerseyBart: I will...waiting for my daughter to get a big older
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:59 PM -
JerseyBart: Bd...brigade by brigade.
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:59 PM -
Jamieva: yes because they could not deploy the full force of their weight due to the terrain and woods
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:59 PM -
bdtex: And the mud
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:59 PM -
Jamieva: if they had been able to throw the entire v and vi corps at once they wouldve pushed stuart and anderson aside easily
Feb 6, 2017 at 10:01 PM -
bdtex: Several times he said "I'll die a Colonel or come out a Brigadier".
Feb 6, 2017 at 10:03 PM -
bdtex: Don't remember who all that was in reference to.
Feb 6, 2017 at 10:04 PM -
JerseyBart: A lot of spoken irony
Feb 6, 2017 at 10:05 PM -
bdtex: At one point in the talk he described a Federal assault being obliterated by artillery and it gave me a cold chill.
Feb 6, 2017 at 10:07 PM -
MaryDee: Me too. A lot of it gave me cold chills!
Feb 6, 2017 at 10:07 PM -
bdtex: And the descriptions of the closeness of some of the action was chilling too.
Feb 6, 2017 at 10:07 PM -
JerseyBart: I cannot even imagine the hell on earth.
Feb 6, 2017 at 10:08 PM -
JerseyBart: Guns, cannons, bayonets and bodies way too close to be hitting bodies
Feb 6, 2017 at 10:08 PM -
JerseyBart: Sponges corpses