GDG- Hoods advance Day 2
Alan D. Brunelle
Alan.Brunelle at hp.com
Wed Oct 17 13:27:29 CDT 2007
Jim Lamason wrote:
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> Allan,
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> I have not read up on that. And I don't have Imhoffs maps (Much to my
> chagrin).. But that makes sense to me..
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> Longstreet has as we all know here, said that the fighting done by the 1st
> Corps that day were the best 3 hours of fighting of the war.
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> Jim
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Hi Jim - (Jim with one 'm', like Alan with one 'l' :-) )
And the numbers certainly back Longstreet up - I don't have them off the
top of my head, but it was something like 11 Confederate brigades
pushing back and/or crippling 22 Union brigades.
Alan
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