GDG- Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 41, Issue 42

[Margaret D. Blough]

One factor that has to be taken in account in any report or letter regarding the battle is the length of time that elapsed between the battle and the date on which the document was written. I remember seeing a quote from the great WW II correspondent Ernie Pyle that he made a point of writing before he went to sleep each day because, if he waited, he found his memory was subtly even unconsciously influenced by what he subsequently heard, including the accounts of others.  

Regards,

Margaret

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From: DShultz180 at aol.com 

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> Bottom line, one cannot see the town of Getysburg from Brinkerhoff's Ridge or 
> any other rise east of Benner's Hill. In order for Williams, Ruger, Colgrove, 
> Rugg and others, to have witnessed the end of the first day's battle they 
> would had to have had to been on Benner's Hill. Physically impossible to see 
> what 
> they saw east of the hill save Wolf's. And that hill is actually 
> south-southeast. 
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> Like you, I haven't an answer. There are other notes and correspondences out 
> there. I'll keep looking. 
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> Dave 
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