GDG- Re: Guns captured by Wright have been Identified.

[Laurence D. Schiller]

Interesting and further indication of a serious problem with Chuck's 
theory. Chuck - are you going to respond to my questions?

Thanks,

Laurie Schiller


>Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
><< 5) For Chuck's attack to occur, Wright must have turned the flank of
>the 69th PA, but Don E., who wrote a book on this regiment, showed
>that casualties in this regiment occurred on their left flank
>companies, not right (north) and that accounts show this regiment
>firing to the left OBLIQUE - i.e. to the south west which is where
>Wright is usually thought to have attacked. Chuck - how do you
>explain this? How does the 69th miss being flanked and why are there
>virtually no casualties on the flank supposedly hit by Wright?  >>
>
>Laurie,
>
>As a somewhat belated comment on this particular, and very valid, 
>point, rather overlooked in all this is the matter of another of 
>Webb's regiments, the 106th PA.  This was initially in Webb's 
>support line, somewhat to the right and rear of the 69th PA, and was 
>moved up closer to the wall, in the area of Cushing's battery, 
>during the action.  Any force getting pst the right flank of the 
>69th PA, into Cushing's position, would have been coming directly up 
>against the 106th PA.  Yet there is no hint in the regiment's OR 
>report, or anywhere else, of any such thing happening.
>
>The 106th PA, BTW, tend to be rather overlooked in general, probably 
>because soon after the action was over on the 2nd, it was detached 
>to the 11th Corps, and was not present during the repulse of the 
>Charge on the next day. (Except for two lonely companies left behind 
>on the Union skirmish line. Next time you're on the Emmitsburg Road, 
>stop at the Codori house and see the almost equally overlooked 
>monument to the two companies, by the north side of the house. 
>Those two companies really earned their pay at Gettysburg.)
>
>Jim Cameron
>
>
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