GDG- Gettysburg The second day

[Jim Lamason]

All, 

The thing that always kind of well surprise me, is we in this time period
seem to dance around the fact that he was ill with an StD that is basically
slowly but surely killing him.. He is very sick... But we don't seem to want
to take that into consideration. Lee had to know how ill he was. But yet
puts him in command... 
Well just my two cents. 
JIM 

-----Original Message-----
From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
On Behalf Of Chet Diestel
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:41 AM
To: GDG
Subject: Re: GDG- Gettysburg The second day

Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <GettysburgerRN at aol.com>
To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: GDG- Gettysburg The second day


> Esteemed GDG Member Ken (GettysburgerRN) Contributes:
>
>
> 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 

 
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