THE THREAD!!!

[Dixie]

g'night lads [>:]

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

g'night lads [>:]

Goodnight dad [:)]

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Well, so much for Gettysburg. Wonder what happened to Lee there; he was given so many opportunities to go for a smarter, less costly assault, and instead plowed his troops straight up the middle and to their slaughter.

Severe case of target fixation...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

[DivePac88]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Well, so much for Gettysburg. Wonder what happened to Lee there; he was given so many opportunities to go for a smarter, less costly assault, and instead plowed his troops straight up the middle and to their slaughter.

Severe case of target fixation...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

According to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

[DivePac88]

Damn... Dixie's got a better/smarter siggy than me! [:@]

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: DivePac88

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Well, so much for Gettysburg. Wonder what happened to Lee there; he was given so many opportunities to go for a smarter, less costly assault, and instead plowed his troops straight up the middle and to their slaughter.

Severe case of target fixation...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

According to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

According to my interpretation of Shelby Foote's narrative of the battle.

[DivePac88]

ORIGINAL: DivePac88

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Well, so much for Gettysburg. Wonder what happened to Lee there; he was given so many opportunities to go for a smarter, less costly assault, and instead plowed his troops straight up the middle and to their slaughter.

Severe case of target fixation...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

According to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

Perhaps I am being a bit disingenuous here, and what the Maine regiment did that day was no small feet-of-arms.

But it always worries me when the main source of an Officer's greatness, is the Officer Himself.

Dez.

[Terminus]

"Feet-of-arms"? Is that like "toes-of-hands"?[:'(]

[DivePac88]

God Damn it, I've done it again, please excuse me while I go out and shoot myself! [:(]

[thegreatwent]

Post work Tithe[&o]


Oh and Dixie your new siggy appears broken to me...[:D]

[thegreatwent]

I'm sure there has been some mistake.

[thegreatwent]

Yay! Shiny new page[8D]

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

"Feet-of-arms"? Is that like "toes-of-hands"?[:'(]

[:D]

[BrucePowers]

Chamberlain held the left with the help of a lot of other units. On the right the corps that held off Early did a great job. Buford had a lot to do with it. Reynolds got there in time. One of the few idiots on the Union side those 3 days was Sickles. The Union forces for the most part backed each other up. Through luck, happenstance or decent generalship for a change the Army of the Potomac did what it was capable of doing those 3 days. The fact that Stuart left Lee blind for 2 days didn't hurt either.

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Chamberlain held the left with the help of a lot of other units. On the right the corps that held off Early did a great job. Buford had a lot to do with it. Reynolds got there in time. One of the few idiots on the Union side those 3 days was Sickles. The Union forces for the most part backed each other up. Through luck, happenstance or decent generalship for a change the Army of the Potomac did what it was capable of doing those 3 days. The fact that Stuart left Lee blind for 2 days didn't hurt either.

That is a good summary.

[BrucePowers]

In summary, Chamberlain was one of many union officers who performed very well those 3 days.

Not pursuing Lee was probably also a sound decision. The Army of the Potomac had to be exhausted after those 3 days.

[BrucePowers]

The Army of Northern Virginia took a lot of casualties they could not afford. The manpower power reserves of the Union had not been tapped out yet.

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: stuman

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Well, so much for Gettysburg. Wonder what happened to Lee there; he was given so many opportunities to go for a smarter, less costly assault, and instead plowed his troops straight up the middle and to their slaughter.

Severe case of target fixation...

I tend to agree. Jeb Stuart may get a small piece of the blame, and Lee's underestimation
of the Union's reaction, and Lee's overestimation of what his troop's could accomplish, and the hardheadedness of various Southern commanders. Longstreet had a better handle on the situation in some ways I think.

Of course, if Longstreet hadn't taken all day to prepare his assault on the right flank, the 20th Maine wouldn't have been around to contest it. Longstreet and Ewell both screwed the pooch in that battle, leaving Lee with the ignominious choice of attacking or retreating.

[BrucePowers]

I think most of the commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia were somewhat complacent going into this battle.

[BrucePowers]

Good night[>:][>:][>:]