Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 27, 2018 22:23:22 GMT
Robert E. Lee who pissed away eleven thousand of the finest infantry the world ever saw in a stupid and useless charge that was doomed to failure.
If you have ever been to Gettysburg and stood at the Angle on Cemetery Ridge, you have to wonder what was going through Lee's mind. A monkey could see that a frontal assault was doomed. Especially since he had done nearly the same thing at Malvern Hill one year before with the same results. I'm not sure you can put the architect of 2nd Manassas and Chancellorsville beside Gates and Lucas. Not for one bad afternoon.
And, face it, Lee lost Gettysburg on the 2nd day. Problem was, for the first time, he wasn't up against a buffoon. Meade was no Napoleon, but he had more brains in his little finger than McClellan, Pope, Burnside and Hooker had in their combined heads.