GDG- The stone wall

Batrinque at aol.com Batrinque at aol.com
Sun Jan 7 08:03:06 CST 2007


In a message dated 1/7/07 5:09:17 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
chaplain.chuck at gmail.com writes:

> When the correspondent for the Richmond
> Enquirer described Wright capturing batteries on the heights, what batteries
> would they be? When the Park Commission described Wright capturing more guns
> on the crest of the ridge, what batteries would they be?.When Captain Snead
> described his men capturing 13 pieces on the crest of the hill, what
> batteries could they be? When Hunt described Wright after having broken
> through the Union line seizing the guns in his front, whose were they? When
> Captain Adams described capturing guns beyond the rock fence, whose were
> they? When Anderson described Wright possessing the Federal artillery
> crowned on the ridge, what guns were they?
> 
> *What Federal guns are all these people talking about???*
> 
> It is not just Wright who made assertions about guns being overrun on the
> crest beyond the stone wall.
> 

Wright ... the Park Commission ... Snead ... Anderson ....  the Richmond 
Enquirer ...  Why should we believe that these are indepedent accounts, 
corroborating one vanother, and not simply \dependent accounts in effect quoting one 
another.?

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT


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