GDG- Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 32, Issue 4

Batrinque at aol.com Batrinque at aol.com
Mon Jan 1 21:06:08 CST 2007


In a message dated 1/1/07 6:59:33 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
chaplain.chuck at gmail.com writes:

> I've taken the time to explain it repeatedly and in various ways, but I'll
> do so again. Their advance was almost directly west-to-east. It was toward
> the two batteries on the crest of the ridge. It was along the axis of the
> farm lane and fence that headed toward the Emmitsburg Road (along Fry's
> right the next day). It was toward the Angle from the west.
> 
> It was on a path that took the Georgians past the south of the Bliss
> homestead, past the north of the Codori homestead.
> 
> To use later reference points, it was roughly from Lee's statue to Meade's
> statue.
> 

There, that wasn't so hard, was it?  Better explaining what you meant to keep 
it in front on everyone rather than leaving them in ignorance.  So, did 
Wright leave a big gap on his right flank?

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT


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