GDG- RE: Winter Stomp

[James Cameron]

<< As I recall it, your version of events has Wright attacking north of the 
Copse, taking the crest and capturing two Union batteries.  All of this 
apparently going unnoticed by anyone in the Federal position, including the 
Commanders and men of the 2nd Corps or even Arnold or Cushing who's 
batteries were supposedly overrun.  >>

And that's the problem.  Or at least, one of the problems.  Wright striking 
and breaking the Union line north of the Copse requires that Cushing and 
Arnold be overrun.  There's simply no way around it.  Yet, the record is 
clear that they were not.  But this theory would have us believe that Wright 
achieved this breakthrough, and captured these two batteries, without 
anybody in the AOP seeming to notice, or saying anything about it.  Hays, 
Hunt, Hazard, Hancock, none of them make any mention of this break in the 
line or batteries being overrun.  No mention in reports from the gunners. 
Nobody claiming to have retaken the guns.  Nothing.

Well, if this did happen, where's the fight?  Something like this would have 
been huge.  Confederate troops on the doorstep of Meade's HQ.  It would be 
up on the monuments, and all over the written record.  Men would have 
bragged about recapturing those guns at GAR meetings for the rest of their 
lives.  It wouldn't be something only detected by carefully reading between 
the  lines over 140 years later.

Jim Cameron