GDG- Most interesting or important Gettysburg mystery

Alan D. Brunelle Alan.Brunelle at pobox.com
Fri Feb 22 13:12:56 CST 2008


Edward F Smothers wrote:
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> My favorite mystery is:
> If Dan Sickles was so bent on getting on high ground, why didn't he fall 
> back to the Round Tops rather than moving forward to the Peach Orchard. 
> The havoc he could have done with several artillery batteries on Little 
> Roundtop boggles the mind.
>
> Ed Smothers
If I recollect correctly, they had enough trouble getting just /one/ 
battery to the top of LRT.

Alan


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