GDG- Ewell and the High Ground

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/1/07 5:24:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, toddest at gmail.com 
writes:

> It would seem that Ewell could have taken
> Culp's Hill with a well-planned assault,

But in the circumstances that prevailed, was a "well-planned assault" 
feasible?  It seems to me that inevitably a Civil War attacking force became 
disorganized, just by the nature of things (one of which was slow, poor communications 
in that pre-radio age), and that any attack by Ewell at that stage of the 
battle would have had to have been  of a somewhat ad hoc character, grabbing 
whatever units came to hand and ordering them forward in an assault without much 
in the way of formal preparation.  I am not saying that such an ad hoc attack 
could not have taken Culp's Hill on Day One, but I suspect that a 
"well-prepared assault" couild not be arranged practically.

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT


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