"Pickett´s Charge : Is Everything we think we know wrong?" Topic

"All Civil War battles have their share of myths, but Gettysburg seems to be in a league of its own. One of the more enduring ones—one I heard frequently when I worked at Gettysburg National Military Park—was that during Pickett's Charge on July 3, J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry was supposed to charge in and strike from the rear at the same time George Pickett and his fellow generals broke the Union center along Cemetery Ridge.

As with many myths, there is a granule of truth here. But tracing the origin of these myths is difficult because they often result not from a single source but from an accumulation of accounts that morph over time into a single narrative, one repeated so often the myth that evolves generally becomes accepted as fact…"

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Armand

Didn't we do this already?

Sort of, maybe not the myths, but this is really mainly about Stuart, not especially new.

What hasn't changed is Tango01 still posting "stuff" without telling us what he (or she) feels as to why it was posted.

I suppose it was posted to give us something to talk about, and to keep the site alive.

Donlowry + 1

Since when has anyone who posts a thread on any subject…
you are forced to comment?

Bill himself posts several threads a day on Ultramodern and in most of them he doesn't comment a single word…

So…

Armand

No problem Armand. But this article did not match up with the title IMO. I wanted to hear some of the other myths.

I would tried… (smile)

Armand