GDG- ANV corps commanders

[Fred Johanson]

At the risk of some heat, I'll make the bold and bald 
statement that the ANV, as well as the CSA, had shot their 
bolt in the October 1862 army reotganization.  There were a 
few Colonels and BGs deserving higher rank, but on the 
whole, the pool of candidates for promotion becomes more and 
more shallow after 10/10/62.  I would be so bold as to say 
that of all subsequent promotions to MG or higher, only 
those of Early, Rodes, Mahone, Gordon, and perhaps Ramseur 
and Pender, worked out, and only that of Anderson to LG was 
not an eventual disappointment.  And if the problem of 
higher ranks in the ANV was a problem, it was much worse in 
the AT.  If in fact the CSA bled to death thru the loss of 
the irreplaceable, it was most apparent at the command level.



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>Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:46:42 -0400
>From: chrishchls at aol.com  
>Subject: GDG- ANV corps commanders  
>To: gettysburg at gdg.org
>
>Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>
>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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