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re: Robert E. Lee has been misrepresented by regressive "historians"
Posted on 5/22/17 at 1:28 pm to Crowknowsbest
Posted on 5/22/17 at 1:28 pm to Crowknowsbest
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Did Lee know that he had to act quickly or lose the whole thing?
Lee couldn't win a war of attrition with the resources at his disposal. He likely thought he needed to completely destroy the Army of the Potomac. Confederate tactics were extremely aggressive for that reason, from all I've read.
He had no reasonable chance of a successful outcome on 7/3/63. Longstreet told him that.
According to one observer the morning of July 3 the only person General Longstreet wanted to fight was General Lee.
Even after Pickett's charge, the AoftP had two unengaged Corps. Lee was not a very good general. He just was not.
This post was edited on 5/22/17 at 1:29 pm
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Posted on 5/22/17 at 1:33 pm to WhiskeyPapa
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He had no reasonable chance of a successful outcome on 7/3/63. Longstreet told him that.
According to one observer the morning of July 3 the only person General Longstreet wanted to fight was General Lee.
Even after Pickett's charge, the AoftP had two unengaged Corps. Lee was not a very good general. He just was not.
He fricked that up. Maybe the biggest consequence of the death of Stonewall Jackson was that Lee didn't have anybody else around him in the immediate aftermath that he respected enough to alter his opinion.
He didn't frick up a lot of other battles. Chancellorsville was brilliant, for example.
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