GDG- Ewell and the High Ground

[Jack Kelly]

Alan,


> Consider Barksdale on the next day - he just kept pushing his brigade 
> forward even though they got disrupted after their initial successes. I 
> don't think there was a lot of planning on his part: just a series of 
> actions in concert with Lee's dictum "the enemy is there, and I intend to 
> strike him there".
>
Maybe so, but remember that Barksdale was on pretty open terrain within a 
range of a mile, so the disruption to unit cohesion was due pretty much to 
combat action.  Ewell's corps, however, on the first day, had been fighting 
for some hours through an area including the town of Gettysburg.  His troops 
were scattered throughout the streets of the town, herding flocks of 
prisoners, and Johnson's whole division was off chasing phantom cavalry 
reports and not-so-phantom reports of XII Corps advances against his left 
flank.

Regards,

Jack Kelly