Re: Longstreet
claude5382@aol.com
Fri, 8 Apr 1994 09:06:28 ECT
>While I agree with Claude Foster and the others through >the years that
>the Pickett/Longstreet charge on July 3 "should never >have been ordered," I
wonder if Longstreet's summation >that no 15,000 men ever arrayed could have
taken the >position might not have been too facile *before* as
>opposed to *after* the fact. ..... In any event, it is no >more clear to
me than apparently was to Lee that the July >3rdassault was "bound to fail."
Longstreet's hindsight >was 20/20.
>Roger Cole
Roger;
Longstreets comments were made to Lee before the attack. It was part of his
final plea to Lee to move what was left of his army around the Union left
flank and avoid this attack.
Claude P. Foster