[central_va]

The Union had the better part of three or four corps (!!!) behind the initial deployments

A union Corp was about the size of an oversized CSA Division. Union leadership was not up to snuff leading to smaller units/per officer.

[LS]

Absolutely right-—so you’re still talking about 50,000 men at minimum backing up a line that was facing . . . what? less than 5000 who survived the march across the open field? Idiotic. Absolutely idiotic. That charge alone should have shattered Lee’s myth.