Comments Posted By Joel
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Did Confederate soldiers chant "Gettysburg. Gettysburg" after the horrific repulse of the Union soldiers at Cold Harbor the next year?
Comment Posted By Joel On 5.07.2006 @ 07:34
Not to be pedantic (or come off as a show off) but both Andrerson's and Heth's divisons were part of A.P. Hill's III Corps, not Ewell's II Corps.
Comment Posted By Joel On 30.06.2006 @ 12:18
Pettigrew's Brigade (11th, 26th 47th and 52nd NC regiments) was part of Henry Heth's division, not Richard Anderson's.
Comment Posted By Joel On 30.06.2006 @ 12:16
One of the enduring myths of the Gettysburg campaign was that Stuart left Lee "blind" during his jaunt in Pennsylvania. Actually Lee had 2 or 3 brigades of cavalry with him - what he lacked was Stuart himself who "never brought me a false piece of information." General Early's divison actually passed through Gettysburg a few days earlier before the battle. Oneo fhis Early's brigaed commaders ( aformer Governor named William "Estra Billy" Smith who commanded a Virginia birgade) made a speech before the people of I think York which went soemthing like this: "My friends, how do you like our coming back into the Union?"
Comment Posted By Joel On 30.06.2006 @ 09:15
Grant liked Baldy Smith until Smith failed him in the Petersburg cmapaign. The one problem with Grant was that if you made a negative impression on him early, it was hard to get him to alter his opinion o fyou later on. I am thinking of Buell, Lew Wallace, Rosecrans and even the great George H. Thomas. Grant had hard feelings aobut Thomas because Halleck replaced Grant with Thaoms (eventhough Thomas did not want it) shortly after Shiloh when Halleck kicked Grant upstairs to be his 2nd in command and gave Thomas temporary command of Grant's army. Grant's favorites were: Sherman (a medicore tactician), Sheridan, Ord and McPherson.
Comment Posted By Joel On 30.06.2006 @ 08:44
Also the following year (1864) Bragg was not in command of the Army of Tennesse. It was Jospeh E. Johnston. The Aof T was destroyed (Generqal Hood replacing Johnston in July 1864)at Franklin and Nashville by Generals Schofield (Franklin) and Thomas (Nashville).
Comment Posted By Joel On 29.06.2006 @ 15:04
Rick:
Comment Posted By Joel On 29.06.2006 @ 15:02
Grant and Rosey despised each other ever since the Corinth and Iuka battles of September and October 1862. Rosey took a pot shot at Grant saying that his accomplishments (Rosey's) was not written in rivers of blood (a shot at Grant's willingness to achieve high casualties). Grant fired Rosecrans after the defeat at Chickamauga when Lincoln made him overall commander in the West. Chickamauga was a Union defeat not a victory. Grant replaced Rssoecrans with the greatest Union commander (in my opinion) George H. Thomas (a Virginian by the way) eventhough Grant and Thomas never cared for each other. When Grant came East he made Sherman commander in the West although Thomas's combat record was flawless and he was Sherman's superior as a soldier, and I suspect as a man.
Could this Rathbone fellow be the same Major Rathbone who was with Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865?
Also virtually ignored by the press at the time (and by The War Department) was the situation in Middle Tennessee where General Rosecrans' (Army of the Cumberland commander)in a positively brilliant strategic campaign was able to maneuver Braxtion Bragg's Army of Tennessee out of Middle Tennesse back into the environs of Chattanooga. The Tullahoma Campaign as it was later referred to, gained more territory with the least amount of bloodshed then any other campaign. Rosecrans later was defeated at Chickamauge in September 1863.
Comment Posted By Joel On 29.06.2006 @ 11:43
Rick:
Comment Posted By Joel On 29.06.2006 @ 10:16
Irascible Old Jube also nearly captured Washington D.C. the next year during his Valley Campaign.
My favorite story of the Gettysburg campaign concerned "Old Jube" Early who when on the march in Pennsylvania detoured his division to take in the iron works owned by anti Southern Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Early when told by the foreman there that the iron works were not making money anyway and therefore it made no sense in burning them said "That's not the way Yankees do business!" and torched them anyway.
Comment Posted By Joel On 28.06.2006 @ 14:16
