A battle in and around a small town in Pennsylvania had been raging for two hot July days When Gen.Robert E. Lee decided that a full frontal assuult on the weaker Union position in their center was the only way to drive the enemy from the field.Failed attempts to crush the Army of the Potomac's flanks on the second day of battle and other factors led him to belive that the A.N.V. could not take the,Now reinforced,flanks of Meade's "fish-hook" line.Should Lee have tried to disengage the enemy or possibly made another flanking movement?Did Lee make the right decision to order the assult now Known as 'Pickett's charge' even after Longstreet told Lee that he seriously Doubted the attack would be successful?
Monday, February 9, 2009
Gettysburg: Day 3
A battle in and around a small town in Pennsylvania had been raging for two hot July days When Gen.Robert E. Lee decided that a full frontal assuult on the weaker Union position in their center was the only way to drive the enemy from the field.Failed attempts to crush the Army of the Potomac's flanks on the second day of battle and other factors led him to belive that the A.N.V. could not take the,Now reinforced,flanks of Meade's "fish-hook" line.Should Lee have tried to disengage the enemy or possibly made another flanking movement?Did Lee make the right decision to order the assult now Known as 'Pickett's charge' even after Longstreet told Lee that he seriously Doubted the attack would be successful?
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Lee moves quickly top the right. Places himself between the Union army and its capitol. Fights on ground of his own chosing. Mead must attack or risk a serious threat to Washington.
I understand your point and I agree,but would two days of fighting only to fall back and leave the union with control of the field give the Army of the Potomac a serious boost in morale and a renewed spirit in the north to volunteer(by showing that the A.N.V. was no longer invincible)?
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