GDG- Wrights Brigade.

[keith mackenzie]

While investigating this Wright's advance thing, I note that Coddington say's "Wright's story of the battle on July Second should be included in the better Civil War romances."
   
  While Pfanz say's "Wright's Brigade had occupied a segment of the ridge crest and pierced the...line at the...center"
   
  Woodward: "...;but in a small way, at least, they had cut the Army of the Potomac in two..."
   
  Bowden and Ward: " ..the 22nd Georgia...moved...into the gap south of the 7 Michigan. their steps had carried them to the crest of Cemetery Hill." 
   
  Tucker: "While Wrights lodgement is often called a penetration...that was not precisely the case, because Webb's Brigade...was largely behind ...the crest and had to be reckoned with before Wright could claim an actual piercing of the Federal Army."
   
  Sears: I don't have that book available, but I seem to recall that he describes Wright has haveing reached "what has become recognized as the High Water mark..."
   
  So I guess what I'm wondering is, besides getting further than anyone else that day, Did Wright's Brigade get as far as he said they did? did he really see the Baltimore Pike? Coddington doesn't seem to think there's enough corraborating statements to
  back up the claim, while all the other books I have seem to accept it as a given. And my memory of Sears, sketchy as it is, seems to suggest that Wrights Brigade made it to the copse of trees that would be the AoV's target on the next day.
   
  Was Lee aware of Wrights claims by the end of day two? Did they have any impact on his planning for day three?
   
  And, While I'm raving, it seems to me the only brigade to have a chance of breaking through north of the copse would have been Posey and/or Mahone. Could Wrights Brigade have stretched out far enough to cover that terrain?
  K.
   
  
 

 
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