GDG- What did Lee Know for sure?

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/3/07 7:12:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
chetd1 at comcast.net writes:

> While that "great answer" remains as elusive as Charlie Brown's efforts 
> to kick the football, what is certain is that no one in the ANV high command 
> 
> seemed to have paused for a moment, put their hands on their hips and asked, 
> 
> "Anyone have an idea where the hell is the Yankee VI Corps is?" It was the 
> largest Union corps, by far, and no one of high degree in the ANV seemed to 
> take into account that some 15,000 fresh troops (a very interesting number) 
> were lurking somewhere in the vicinity, because they certainly hadn't been 
> committed to the battle.
> 


Yes, there does seem to have been an attitude that the only reality with 
which the ANV had to contend was what was, more or less, in plain sight. And if 
you didn't see it, then you operated on the assumption it wasn't there.  It is 
sort of the reverse of what had infected Mac earlier in the war and what would 
come, perhaps, to haunt Warren's imagination later.


Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT