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Its not my fault you are trying to make 10 regiments who held those 2 hills out to be some kind of heroes.
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They are heroes in the same way that the Confederates who made Picket's Charge are heroes.
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Must suck that I can go and find Communications between General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis to prove you wrong on the intent. Where is your proof?
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What Lee told Jefferson fits in quite well with the fundamental conflict in the Confederacy between the two of them. Lee wanted to destroy the Union army in the field, whereas Davis advocated a strong defensive posture. So the attack on Gettysburg was advertised by Lee as a small raid to throw the federals onto the defensive, because Davis would not have gone along with it had it been otherwise.
I have read multiple books on this subject, I have no idea where I can find any internet resources to prove it. Undoubtedly you will simply write me off as a liar or something, which will then only prove to me that further debate with you on this subject is useless.
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hey didn't lose at Bull Run. So your point is moot.
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Sigh....
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LMAO, He was a Confederate that marched all the way to Monocacy in 1864 unmolested. He was 3 miles outside of Washington D.C. In 4 days will be 144 years to the day this battle happened.
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Excuse me, I meant to ask if he was commanding the Army of Northern Virginia. I put forward the idea that the Army of Northern Virginia no longer had any capacity for offensive action, and even this little raid by Early doesn't seem to be any sort of strategic assault, more of a tactical raid.
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Yes, and you also claimed the Confederates lost 25,000 men. They did not.
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According to the figures I've seen, it was around 25,000 on both sides.
And even so, 2,000 either way is hardly a huge thing.
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No, never said it did. But there was the ability to march troops to shore up the lines, if it came down to it. Despite what the movies tell you. We aren't talking about a Special Forces unit dropped in the middle of nowhere facing 1,000 enemy combatants with no back up.
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Yeah, because we all know that troops could magically teleport to threatened sectors without any risk of their own more weakly defended sectors being attacked.
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Again, show me your evidence you being even 1/10th right? I've shown you the Communications from Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis that puts your whole D.C. theory to bs.
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I don't really have a whole DC theory, but had the Confederates won the battle of Gettysburg, do you agree that the war's outcome may well have been quite different? That's all I am saying right now. You've taken a casual statement I made and blown it out of proportion entirely. You're right, I should have said "determined to dislodge them in order to facilitate the peace meal destruction of the Union Army. I didn't. I suppose I'm now paying for that with your completely unprovoked ridicule.