Gettysberg

[ezzler]

Looked at the Stuart's charge thing earlier on here.
But it doesn't add up. It seems the plan was just an additional part of the third day. Create a disturbance in the rear, and if Pickett was doing well enough the added arrival of Stuart should add to the panic and cause the union to run away.

It seems extremely unlikely it was the other way around with Pickett masking Stuarts attack, as is alleged.

[nicwb]

Joe D,

Perhaps Lee was as desperate as Napoleon was at Waterloo -- actually Mount St Jean -- when the Emperor sent in the Old Guard en masse against Wellington's well-prepared positions?

He must have been ! yet at least napoleon had the excuse of wanting to beat Wellington before Blucher's arrival (as usual trying to defeat a large opponent in detail)

Kverdon, the JEB Stuart suggestion is interesting but in the past Lee had always done that sort of thing with infantry rather than cavalry - I guess he really missed Jackson. Infantry were the heavy hitters of the day.