GDG- If Sickles had stayed put!

[Margaret D. Blough]

I'm sure that Lee would have insisted on something but I doubt that no matter how audacious he was and how contemptuous of the AOP mounting an attack with a force of unknown size was something he probably would have preferred the enemy rather than the ANV do.

Regards,

Margaret

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From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> <> Longstreet would have called off the attack if it meant attacking with a 
> Union corps on its flank. As I've said earlier, I doubt anyone in the First 
> Corps of the ANV forgot about their devastating attack on Pope's flank at 
> Second Manassas.>> 
> 
> Margaret, 
> 
> Where do you think that would leave the situation, if Longstreet called off 
> the attack? Given his mindset at the time, Lee obviously would have ordered 
> Longstreet to go on the offensive in some way. The question is what was the 
> alternative, once they discovered that Union troops occupied CR as far south 
> as LRT? Alan Brunelle suggested the possibility of a frontal attack against 
> Sickles corps on the ridge. 
> 
> It is interesting that Longstreet apparently wanted McLaws division to line 
> up parallel to the ER rather than perpendicular in the way Lee ordered. The 
> parallel placement would suggest a frontal attack against the ridge, rather 
> than moving up the ER as Lee originally intended. 
> 
> Tom Ryan 
> 
> 
> 
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