GDG- Winter Stomp (The Rans Wrong Wright Tour)
James Cameron
cameron2 at optonline.net
Mon Jan 1 14:44:37 CST 2007
<< Let me seek to pose the issue in simple terms. In the bigger picture,
there
are two points so strong that they would seem to be incontrovertible.
First. the Confederate accounts from participants and observers are
consistent that Wright's Brigade crossed the stone wall, breached the Union
line, and captured the Federal guns on the crest of the ridge.
Second, the Federal accounts from those units to the south of the Copse
(Hall, Harrow, and Webb's Brigades) are consistent that the enemy attack
they faced was stopped clearly short of their line.
If anyone can contradict these two basic points I would be most interested
in your evidence. Thank you. >>
Not sure what your point is here. Contradictory versions of events are
routine. The fact accounts of what took place south of the Copse are
inconsistent with one another don't amount to evidence for what you say
happened to the north of it.
As far as the consistency you point to in Confederate accounts, Posey's
report gives no indication at all of Wright doing what you say he did. To
the contrary, it's entirely consistent with Wright not having been north of
the Copse.
Jim Cameron
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