GDG- ANV corps commanders

[chrishchls at aol.com]

In hindsight there were a couple of intriguing corps commander possibilities, problem was they were all too junior at the time of the pre-Gettysburg reorganization - Mahone (who did a lousy job at Gettysburg) ended up being a good senior commander for Lee later in the war but was only a brigadier in July 1863, Gordon and Ramseur were two good brigadiers but they were just that, brigadiers...I think Pender would've made a good corps commander had he lived (and a comment from Lee about losing all his best men - Jackson, Hood, Pender, I think, were the three names Lee gave, indicates that Lee thought so as well) - but Pender was very young and also just fighting his first battle as division commander at Gettysburg.  Lee could've looked outside the ANV I suppose but that could've generated problems, conflict, etc...
 
Chris
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