Word: longstreets
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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...
...What Longstreet had not known was that at dawn Little Round Top was defended by only a few men of the Union Signal Corps, that it was then a weak point in the Union line. Late in the morning a Union officer discovered that this most important spot had been overlooked; Union troops arrived to defend it only a few minutes before Longstreet's Texans stormed up its slopes...
...Longstreet was still defending himself when he died in 1904. Last week on Seminary Ridge, on the site of his indecision, ground was broken for a monument to him. U.S. Army officers, his widow, Mary Pickford, a Confederate veteran took part in the ceremony; thunder crashed and lightning slashed the sky; troops re-enacted Pickett's famed charge. Southerners shook their heads. The Baltimore Sun mourned: Why could the monument not have been put up at Manassas, or Antietam, or the Wilderness, scenes of Longstreet's undoubted generalship...
...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...