GDG- Gettysburg - The Second Day

[John Baniszewski]

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  I thought that the original attack as planned by 
Lee involved Hood and McLaws and that Anderson was in, at best, a 
supporting role. The attack as it actually developed was more or less 
en echelon, but how aware was Anderson of this and of, what looks to 
us now in hindsight, to be his role in continuing this attack?
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  General Wilcox was highly critical of Anderson, saying “(I) found all his staff lying on the ground indifferently, as though nothing was going on.  I am quite certain that General Anderson never saw a foot of the ground on which his three brigades fought on the 2nd of July”.  
   
  
  Longstreet was also very critical of the lack of support, stating “We received no support at all, and there was no evidence of cooperation on any side.  To urge my men forward under these circumstances would have been madness, and I withdrew them in good order”.
   
  John Baniszewski
   

 		
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