GDG- 4th PA Cav on July 2

[J. David Petruzzi]

I often say that I take every opportunity possible to criticize Pleasonton's
performance... because he deserves it :-)

Hi failures beginning way back during Mac's Peninsula Campaign were indeed
egregious, and it never got any better right up to his booting to the West
in the spring of 1864.  Pleasonton connected himself with every single day
of the Gettysburg battle... claiming credit for sending Buford to hold
Gettysburg "at all costs" (a bald-faced lie); sending Buford off the field
on July 2 without replacing him; and not personally directing operations on
the 3rd, resulting in a subsequent cover-up of sorts regarding Farnsworth's
death.  His decisions (or lack thereof) during the retreat were abominable,
and is the reason he catches so much flack from Eric, Mike Nugent and I in
the Conclusion to our new book "One Continuous Fight."

J.D.

J. David Petruzzi
My blog: http://petruzzi.wordpress.com
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Tom,

I agree with everything you've said here.  Pleasonton's failures were
egregious.  There's no doubt about it.

Eric