"Robert E. Lee & Gettysburg: How the Confederacy Lost" Topic
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Tango01 | 09 Nov 2020 9:23 p.m. PST |
"With Ewell engaged, Lee changed his mind and decided to attack the center of the Union line. The evening before, Union Major General John Newton, Reynolds's replacement as commander of the First Corps, had told Meade that he should be concerned about a flanking movement by Lee, who would not be "fool enough" to frontally attack the Union army in the strong position into which the first two days' fighting had consolidated it. Around midnight Meade told Brigadier General John Gibbon that if Lee went on the offensive the next day, he would attack Gibbon's Second Division of the Second Corps in the center of the Union line. Gibbon replied that if Lee did so, he would be defeated…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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donlowry | 10 Nov 2020 5:21 p.m. PST |
IIRC, what Newton said was that Lee has hammered us into a position that he cannot hammer us out of. |
Tango01 | 11 Nov 2020 12:22 p.m. PST |
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