GDG- Time Line for Gettysburg Day Two

[Richard M Kadas]

Have you considered renting a horse to tour the battlefield?  As the battle with two exceptions ( Reno's skirmish line and his subsequent entrenched position) was fought by the 7th Cav. on horseback. Only on horseback can you get an idea of what Weir saw and if he and his troops could have been seen against the skyline by individuals in Custer's battalion. BTW, what's your opinion of Don Weibert's book, Sixty-six Years in Custer's Shadow 
  Dick

Batrinque at aol.com wrote:
  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


In a message dated 4/2/2007 10:02:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
rvn4fun at att.net writes:

As we are visiting LBH in June - all
of my reading has been on that subject to the detriment of GB other than
this site. I have not read beyond the approach to the village in Gray's
book - interested in how he will deal with Custer's battlefield. 
He pretty much follows Rich Fox's views in that regard.

My last
three books I have read have three different scenarios. Do you have any
major disagreement with Gray's book.

I believe that the battle events happened about 2 hours earlier in the day 
than Gray does (and I find his reconstruction of the ride of the Arikara scouts 
back from the Crow's Nest to the Seventh Cavalry's camp to be mildly absurd 
-- a crippled gopher could have done it faster).

By the way have seen your name several
times in text and footnotes. Did not realize you were such a big wig in the
LBH world.


A moderate sized wig. But I have been fortunate in coming up with a few 
ideas that others have found persuasive.


Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT



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