GDG- Lurkers-What do you find most confusing about the Battle?

[Jim Beeghley]

For me, it is Culp's Hill.  During a trip last fall, I was able to get a
better handle on the terrain but the individual events are still a bit
confusing to me.

Jim Beeghley
Teaching the Civil War with Technology Blog

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jim Lamason <jlamason at verizon.net> wrote:

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>
> The Wheatfield. And the direction the Confederates attacked from. If the
> tree line is correct, and the sight lines are back to where they were, if
> you stand where the 115 Pa Monument is, and also the other monuments there,
> you get this sense that there is well almost a funnel that the ANV troops
> have to go through. That whole line of sight has me even more confused.
>
> Jim Lamason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> On Behalf Of Alan D. Brunelle
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 9:33 AM
> To: GDG
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lurkers-What do you find most confusing about the Battle?
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> Robert Lawrence wrote:
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > For me it's the Wheatfield.
>
> Robert - Is it the whole set of actions in the Wheatfield, or specific
> issues that you find confusing? The biggest hole for me seems to be the
> actions of Semme's brigade. Most of the high-level interactions in the
> Wheatfield proper I can grasp (with the help of Pfanz & Imhoff, and to a
> certain extent Jorgensen). But when you start factoring in the stuff
> going on around it, and trying to combine them all together, my head
> starts to explode... :-)
>
> Regards,
> Alan
>
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