GDG- Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10

[James Cameron]

<< It is true that Gen. Lee had with
him some cavalry, but he was without an experienced or able officer to
command them, and they rendered him no valuable service. >>

That actually seems like a good point.  With as minimal as staff as he had, 
Lee was having a hard enough time.  How effectively could he be expected to 
have made use of the cavalry assets he was in communication with, or had 
with him, absent an experienced cavalry commander on hand?

Jim Cameron