GDG- Lee's cavalry at Gettysburg

[Alan D. Brunelle]

Not a lot of thought behind this thought ('snew?), but I was wondering 
how much of Lee's prior success had been against a foe that was much 
less dynamic in response than Meade proved to be. Thinking off the top 
of my head, Lee seemed to do well when he could hit a static opponent 
with numbers (sometimes, of course, after hitting an active army and 
causing them to set up a static situation), and collapse them in. 
Leaving aside Day 1 (where Lee did manage to crumple relatively 
non-supporting lines)...If Meade (and his subordinates) had /not/ been 
so proactive on Day 2, one could easily envision Longstreet's troops 
crumbling up the AoP from the south. Day 3 was another matter 
altogether, I suppose.

If this is the case, perhaps the lack of good management of the 
available calvary is less of a factor than Meade was...

Alan