GDG- Gettysburg The second day

[Chet Diestel]

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> Esteemed GDG Member Ken (GettysburgerRN) Contributes:
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> For the majority of the battle hill seemed like a nonentity, except on 
> day1
> when he ordered heth to gettysburg.....
> ken

   Nonentity seems like such an appropriate description of Hill during the 
battle. For an army on the attack, the passivity of one of its three corps 
commanders has never been fully explained.
   The moment with Heth is a good one, for from that point on he seems to 
fade from the seen in terms of being an active, aggressive combat commander, 
certainly when compared to Longstreet (even withhis slowness) and even 
Ewell. It is one of the mysteries which makes Gettysburg so interesting.
   With regards,
             Chet