GDG- Re: Three Lines - Two lines

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/27/2007 1:59:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ernscave at aol.com writes:

Bruce - you raise a great question about which I have yet  made a conclusion. 
When I produced my CD-Rom  "The Great Charge" I leaned  toward the three line 
view..... I have always been strongly influenced by the  statements of the 
Archer survivors.  However I anxiously await the views  of the GDG on this 
issue.   I need to make a decision sometime in  the next year before my upcoming 
book on
"Pettigrew Charge" is  published.


 
One thing that occurs to me is that if Pettigrew's division had been  
deployed in the standard 2-rank line of battle, it would have stretched an  awfully 
long ways northwards.  I believe that Mike Priest in his book (and  North & 
South article) made such a calculation and reached some unlikely  conclusions 
about how much the length of the battleline had shrunk by the time  it got to the 
Emmitsburg Road; I think the numbers and situation make a lot more  sense if 
you start from an assumption that Pettigrew instead was deployed in a  double 
line of battle.  

Bruce  Trinque
Amston, CT




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