GDG- Winter Stomp (The Rans Wrong Wright Tour)

[Chuck Teague]

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> >> With all due respect, as the party espousing a  novel theory that is
> contra to the traditional interpretation, the onus is on you to prove
> it.  That's how the scientific method works.Your reaction is similar to
> that of someone else whom I shall not name, but simply saying "prove me
> wrong" doesn't cut it. Eric


In the post that you are responding to, I was simply seeking to establish
where there might be common ground as to acceptance of evidence, not as to a
further interpretation of it. For example, when Captain Clairbourne Snead
would declare that the Georgians succeeded in *"cutting entirely in twain
the army of Meade,"* he might well be wrong. But that he and his comrades
made such claims in indisputed.

FWIW, I don't consider mine a novel theory, but one that was commonly
expressed in the first several decades after the war. I'm not trying to
claim credit for realizing something that everyone else missed. Indeed, most
of the maps from that era depict Wright headed where I think he struck. The
foremost history of the era, that of the Comte de Paris (c. 1875), describes
it as I see it. In considering the historiography, it appears that what is
today the popular view started to develop during the third decade after the
battle.