GDG- Cushing spent the day yawning ...Ho-Hum!

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/2/07 8:33:43 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
jmkelly at norwoodlight.com writes:

> That is correct, Bruce.  The direction of the Confederate advance was 
> confirmed by Anthony McDermott of the 69th PA who stated that the enemy 
> approached the 69th's position from his "left front".
> 

It seems to me that Union sources pointing to the location of Wright's attack 
are decidedly consistent in placing that advance to the south of the 
Grove/Copse/Coppice/Thicket.  Yet, for reasons that entirely escape me, we are urged 
to ignore such accounts in favor of a theory that contends that Wright overran 
Union artillery batteries whose members utterly failed to report being 
overrurn, attacked, or even being approached by Confederate forces.  It walks like a 
duck and quacks like a duck, but we are supposed to identify it as a peacock.

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT