GDG- Time Line for Gettysburg Day Two

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/29/07 9:55:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
cameron2 at optonline.net writes:

> No.  Time references in various accounts can vary so widely, due both to 
> differing perceptions and, the fact this was well before standardized times, 
> that establishing accurate clock times for specific events can be very 
> difficult.  To me, the sequence and relationship of events is more important than 
> exactly what time they took place.
> 

A timeline for these same events is imposed by the (animated) maps of the 
Gettysburg Expedition Guide from TravelBrains on CD.  As to how accurate that 
reconstruction is ... well, you pays your money and you takes your chances.

I very much like the notion of doing such detailed time-distance studies (the 
heart of my hopefully one of these days forthcoming book on the Little Big 
Horn is a lengthy spreadsheet-based time-distance study with increments of 
motion of one-tenth mile and maps mostly at five-minute intervals); carefully done, 
they may not be proof of what actually happened, but they can certainly point 
out what could not have happened (by forcing you to recognize that sufficient 
time between events was necessary for movement from here to there or that 
someone could not have been in two places at once).

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT


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