GDG- RE: Kershaw

[Alan D. Brunelle]

keith mackenzie wrote:
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> Alan: I wondered about that myself. Evidently, no one copped to giving the order, and no one recalled exactly who they heard it from. Unless someone who recognizes it finds a letter, (previously edited) between some old newspapers at a church sale in Pugwash, where some poor guy admits his involvement, I believe this is going to remain an unexplained muck up.
>   Personally, I think it was just one of those telegragh things, where one guy looked over his shoulder, saw something going on, nudged the guy next to him, who nudged the guy next to him etc, until everyone just "thought" they remembered an order "to march to the right". 
>   Good Luck with it though. Who knows, you might be the guy. 
>   K.

The problem with the "noticing" part is that the troops moving 
/slightly/ to the right were way the heck back over the 2nd SC's 
shoulders, with the whole 3rd South Carolina regiment between the troops 
moving and the 2nd SC. I'm more in the camp that there was a significant 
amount of persuasion from the artillery in their front - I'd bet it was 
a combination of factors: the artillery, some nice looking woods, maybe 
some movement in the right/rear, lots of shouting. Reminds me a bit of 
Catch-22 where Yossarian fakes that he can't hear the pilot...

Alan