GDG- The stone wall

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/5/07 2:31:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
chaplain.chuck at gmail.com writes:

> The issue at hand is whether that latter depiction is accurate. I think 
> not,
> for the reasons stated. However, neither does it fit the currently more
> popular view.
> 
> In studying this action, one thing that has become apparent is that through
> the decades there is no consistent depiction in text or in maps where Wright
> was headed. Many today seem to assume that there has been a standard
> interpretation for generations, but that is not the case. I have found this
> historiography to be most fascinating, and the conflicting depictions
> revealing as to how confused were the participants and so too the
> interpreters.
> 

The issue at hand is, did Batchelder or anyone else show Wright overrunning 
Cushing and Arnold?  Surely, part of Wright's brigade may have struck along the 
Union line while part hit into a gap and thus "penetrated" the Cemetery Ridge 
position.  Obviously, I believe the evidence strongly points to that 
gap/penetration being south of the Copse.

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT