GDG- Help! Need some advice..

[Margaret D. Blough]

Ah yes, "the essay", in which RKK does not seem to grasp that Lee's apparent inability to understand what seems so clear to Krick, that James Longstreet was a psychotic mass murderer who sent thousands of men to their deaths out of spite to REL, it it were true, might not reflect well on Lee.

Regards,

Margaret
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From: "Harry Smeltzer" <hjs21 at comcast.net> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> I think what the poster may have been referring to is the Wert essay in 
> Gallagher and Nolan's "The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History". 
> It was written partyly as a response to Krick's notoriously execrable essay 
> in Gallagher's essay collection, "The Second Day at Gettysburg". Krick's 
> screed is titled "'If Longstreet...Says So, It Is Most Likely Not True' 
> James Longstreet and the Second Day at Gettysburg". Krick may never escape 
> the long shadow of this essay, but his pathological hatred of Longstreet 
> will likely prevent him from caring. 
> 
> BTW, Wert's essay is titled "James Longstreet and the Lost Cause". 
> 
> Harry 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] 
> On Behalf Of Kerry Webb 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 6:42 AM 
> To: GDG 
> Subject: Re: GDG- Help! Need some advice.. 
> 
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> Richard M Kadas wrote: 
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Brruce, 
> > Have you read wert's on Day One edited by Gary Gallegher?. I found its 
> section on Confederate bgde. level command failures particularly 
> interesting. 
> > Dick 
> 
> Gallagher has a collection of essays titled "The First Day at 
> Gettysburg", with pieces by Alan Nolan, Gallagher, A Wilson Greene and 
> Bob Krick. No Wert in that one. 
> 
> Krick's is on Failures in Confederate Brigade Leadership. 
> 
> There may be another book. 
> 
> Kerry 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Kerry Webb 
> 
> Canberra, Australia 
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