GDG- Corp size at GB

[Char & Charlie]

I Listened to Civil War Talk Radio's show from last Friday last night.  The
topic was a book about the  'Commanders of the AoP'.  The question was asked
by the host to the author of the book about the size of the Corps at GB.
ANV with 3 and AoP with 7 - who had the best organization?  The response of
the author was that Lee had the best Corps organization because of the
larger Corps that could hit harder because of its size.  Given the number of
discussions here about command decisions and communications within the two
armies during the battle of GB - I wonder if everyone would agree.  The
Author pointed out that later in the war the AoP went to much larger Corps
of about 20,000 because of the greater punch they provided,  instead of the
~ 10,000 Corps size at GB.  I think that Hill and Ewell did not handle their
Corps very well during the battle.  Whether because of their inexperience at
Corp command or other reasons is debatable.    But Lee kept giving
Longstreet larger responsibility over numbers of troops

 

The author also sited Hancock as probably the best Corp commander of the
war.  Slocum and one of the better commander as well, and Reynolds as
probably one of the top but died too soon to tell.

 

Char & Charlie

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