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...truth, as TIME states [July 14], that "Lee . . . expected Longstreet to advance at dawn" on July 2 at Gettysburg...
...criticism of General Longstreet's operations at Gettysburg has been based on the malicious charge by General Pendleton, after the death of Lee, that Longstreet was ordered to make an early or sunrise attack at Gettysburg [that day]. But Pendleton's own report, written about 60 days after the battle . . . states that Lee, Longstreet, himself and other officers were riding over the battlefront on the morning of July 2, "soon after sunrise," until "about midday . . . surveying the enemy's position . . . and the best mode of attack...
...stand on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg and look across the valley at the slope of Little Round Top, you can see why General Longstreet thought it was hopeless to try to take that hill. Now the scene is quiet; the bronze generals stare sightlessly at each other in the forest of statues; the cannons are now cannons in a park. But at dawn on July 2, 1863, when General Longstreet looked across at the ridge occupied by General Meade, the woods were alive with Union soldiers, 339 Union cannons were in the field; and Little Round Top on the Union...
...symbol of Longstreet on Seminary Ridge was by a sort of pathetic fallacy a neat lesson for the U.S. in 1941. Whether or not he was right by the book, he was, at Gettysburg, a classic American figure of the cost of delay...
...world's great warrior nations, that the whole continental seaboard is a great field of their battles from Quebec and Louisburg to Chapultepec; that the pitting of Americans against Americans resulted in the world's most terrible battles until World War I-on the rolling farmlands of Gettysburg, in the narrow valley of Antietam Creek, on the hills at Chickamauga, in the oak and pine thickets of Virginia's Wilderness...