GDG- New Lincoln Letter Found!!

[Margaret D. Blough]

Also, as Alexander makes clear in his memoirs, the Confederate were short on long-range artillery ammunition, not short range.  IIRR, while he didn't think Seminary Ridge was as good a position as Cemetery Ridge, it was still a good position, and the ANV, while suffering terrible losses, was still in good order and willing to fight.

Regards,

Margaret

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From: "Jack Kelly" <jmkelly at norwoodlight.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> Laurie, 
> 
> I tend to agree with your opinion. We visited the field with Eric 
> Wittenberg on a monumental bus tour some years ago. The Confederate 
> position looked to be a very strong one, and , even if the Federals broke 
> through, it would have been at horrendous cost. There did not appear to me 
> to be any room for a flank attack, just frontal assault. I think Meade was 
> justified in not attacking at this time, although his inactivity on 4 July 
> may be criticized. 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Jack Kelly 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Laurence Schiller" 
> To: "GDG" 
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 4:47 PM 
> Subject: Re: GDG- New Lincoln Letter Found!! 
> 
> 
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> > 
> > 
> > Jack - this is far too simple, as you suggest. The idea that Meade would 
> > could have ended the war with a victory at Falling Waters, or somewhere 
> > on the way, denies the basic fact that Meade might have also LOST in an 
> > attack against Lee's entrenched army. It also ignores the fact, as we 
> > have pointed out on this board many times, that it is very hard to 
> > destroy a CW army. They are making way too much of this, something, I 
> > think Lincoln himself began to understand when he didn't sent the letter 
> > he wrote to Meade. 
> > 
> > Best, 
> > 
> > Laurie Schiller 
> > 
> > On Jun 7, 2007, at 5:24 PM, jack wrote: 
> > 
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Do you think the war would have ended then, if Meade had not allowed Lee 
> >> to break contact? While I have some issues with Meade here, the bald 
> >> statement "the war lasted two more years" raises some serious questions. 
> >> Grant and Sherman were both otherwise occupied at that point, and there 
> >> was no one else with the National grasp (besides Lincoln, apparently) to 
> >> perform the ritual slashing of the throat. 
> >> 
> >> I believe that the triple Union victories in July of 1863 were the death 
> >> knell of the confederacy, but there was no one available who understood 
> >> the ritual to perform it. 
> >> 
> >> For two more years, the war ciontinued on its own momentum. When war has 
> >> no master, it truly serves only itself. 
> >> 
> >> The masters were still learning. Or, as Sheridan put it, they were 
> >> entering our professional period. 
> >> 
> >> Regards, 
> >> 
> >> Jack 
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Siegal" 
> >> To: 
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:05 PM 
> >> Subject: GDG- New Lincoln Letter Found!! 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> A week after Lincoln's note, the Confederate army slipped across the 
> >>> Potomac 
> >>> River into Virginia, and the war continued for two more years. 
> >>> 
> >>> Although Gen. George Meade led the Northern troops in the battle at 
> >>> Gettysburg that marked the turning point of the war, he has always been 
> >>> faulted for not closing in and destroying Lee's army. 
> >>> 
> >>> At a news conference, archivist Trevor Plante said he was looking for 
> >>> something else last month when he found Lincoln's note tucked away in a 
> >>> drawer among other papers. His reaction was "wow" when he recognized 
> >>> the 
> >>> handwriting and Lincoln's signature. 
> >>> 
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