GDG- Re: none of us were there

[Biggsk at aol.com]

Dave Schultz writes:

>>>>It is because I know for fact those guns did not exist  that allows me to 
dispute Key's near 40-year recollection. It is because the  Union officer 
that was dismounted could have been anybody (Baldwin and Weir  were both 
dismounted by musketry at was Lt. Livingston) east of Emmitsburg  Road that I dispute 
your claim that Key is valid proof. It is because there's  no proof in your 
logic, as there was not in Chuck's theory, that Wright topped  the crest and or 
carried a battery, or two, with  him.>>>>



Dave,
 
Your flippant tossing off of what I saw when my friend was killed by a car,  
as well as your own event of being shot during a robbery, as not being good  
examples of being able to recount history somewhat accurately after some years  
is simply folly - or as we say down South, your bucket don't hold water!
 
I guarantee you that you will recall your event as vividly in 30 more years  
as I will mine - and that can be chalked up to a good memory of a pivotal 
event  in our lives.  The charge of Wright's Brigade was also a pivotal event in  
the lives of the two men that I have posted.  Who are you to judge how the  
impact of that day affected them just as I cannot judge your memory of what  
happened to you?
 
Key's number of "40 guns" is probably wrong - I doubt that Key took the  time 
to actually count tubes that day as he had better things to do with the air  
being filled with lead balls trying to kill him.  I also doubt that the  
figure of 40 guns was accurate personally and was at the very best, a quick  
estimate of what he could see from wherever he was.  I stink at guessing  the size 
of crowds in a room and Key stinks at guessing the number of Union  guns.  But, 
your own statement showed that there were a number of guns that  they could 
have seen from Key's position.  So he was off by some - as we  all would have 
been most likely.  But still, his statements are being  discounted.
 
Key suggested stated what the other account I have posted also stated, that  
Wright's guys overran some guns - one of the 3rd GA guys was sitting on the  
barrel of one based on the first account.  The first account was far more  
vivid than Key's account and more illustrative of what that man saw that  day.
 
We all bow down to your Federal artillery knowledge indeed, but we now have  
two CSA accounts that state similar things.  Shall we just toss them out so  
flippantly because we might not agree with them  - or maybe go back through  
and see if they might have something to them?  There's lots of post-war  stuff 
on Wright's Brigade in the Atlanta newspapers - I will surely post some  more 
as I find them that relate to this battle, and let's see if any others come  
close to the two I have posted already.
 
Lastly, I have never stated that Wright topped the crest and I did not get  
that from either of these two accounts.  From what I have always  understood, 
Wright's Brigade broke the Union line along the road and then hit  the stone 
wall, came over, and were driven out.  The stone wall is, so far  as I have 
seen, below the crest.  I have never read anything that suggested  that they hit 
the topographical crest of the ridge itself.  
 
Greg Biggs