GDG- RE: "Lee felt that his army was invincible"

[Richard M Kadas]

I beg to differ on the grounds that the attacking force in an engagement is generally believed to lose a higher number of junior officers and noncoms which are the ranks tasked with inspiring their commands by example. IMHO you also have to examine the results of C'ville by corps The AoP's 11th corps suffered a disproportionate number of casualties at C'ville the impact of which was notable on the first day at GB. A good comparison might be to investigate whether the AoP's 1st Corp of 11th Corp suffered the greatest number of JO and noncom casualties on day one at GB
  Dick
  Tim Gennett <k9wx at wildblue.net> wrote:
  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


Surely the loss of middle-grade officers cut both ways, affecting the ANV
and the AoP equally. If you want to make the argument that Gettysburg
occurred too soon after Chancellorsville for the ANV to recover from its
C'Ville losses, don't you also have to recognize that the ranks of the AoP
were similarly decimated at C'Ville, and the whole impact thing ends up
being a wash?

Regards, Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com 
> [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of Smith, David [USA]
> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 14:48
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: GDG- RE: "Lee felt that his army was invincible"
> 
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> 
> This reinforces the thread going on discussing the loss of 
> Confederate officers at Chancellorsville. The loss was 
> significant and I believe had a significant impact at Gettysburg.

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