GDG- 20th Maine vs 137th NY

[Robert Lawrence]

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<<In truth, the fighting on Culp's Hill should no more be 
<<viewed solely in terms of the 137th NY than that on LRT 
<<should be through the lense of the 20th ME.  But in my 
<<opinion, a Confederate capture of Culp's Hill would have had 
<<more serious consequences for the AOP than the Confederates 
<<gaining a foothold on LRT.
<<
<<Jim Cameron


I disagree? What good was Culp's Hill? Heavily forested it was
unsuitable for artillery and was in easy range of devastating artillery
fire from Cemetery Hill. At the most they could have caused a small
detour over open fields and easy terrain for troops arriving up the
Baltimore pike. 

Likewise I am not so sure that taking LRT would have had the effect that
many think. As Tom Dsjardin pointed out you could perhaps put two or
thee cannons up there-not enough to have a significantly effect on the
union line. And as Wayne W often pointed out there were 6,000 soldiers
of the 6th Corp within a half mile to a mile of it in the event of a
Confederates did overrun it.