GDG- Re: ? and ?? /Colonel/ DeTrobriand and /Colonel/ Burling

[Alan D. Brunelle]

Edward F Smothers wrote:
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> If there in one thing that will get things stirred up here, is the actions 
> of Dan Sickles, before and after the battle.
> Ed Smothers
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Oh, and this is most certainly /not/ a swipe at either DeTrobriand or 
Burling, nor necessarily against Sickles either, I just thought it was 
kind of strange to leave a demi-brigade back at Emmitsburg without a 
general-level officers in charge.

Alan

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> OK, I'll bite:
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> Anybody have any information and/or opinions as to why Major General Dan 
> Sickles chose to leave two brigades that were led by /Colonels/ without 
> any oversight of either of his two divisional commanders (Birney & 
> Humphreys) back in Emmitsburg on July 1, 1863 while he took the 
> remaining 4 brigades (commanded by Brig. Generals) along with his two 
> divisional commanders up to Gettysburg?
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