Great man and a patriot (back ten, states’s rights were assumed to be a valid political theory)-but what was he thinking at Gettysburgh?
At Gettysburg, he did not know what he faced. The calvary was not available to him to report where the Union Army was and which portions he faced. There were also two new corps under new corps commanders.
“(back ten, states’s rights were assumed to be a valid political theory)”
According to the Constitution it still is.
Elitist, statist, Democrats and other liberals have been working hard to eradicate it but the individual rights of soverign states is still in the Constitution for all to read.
I think he loved his state of Virginia above all. I read once that he was trying to keep the fighting out of Virginia the summer of Gettysburg so that Virginians could grow their crops so desperately needed. Also read he was suffering severe angina during the Battle, that he wrote about feeling disconnected from what was happening, giving nonspecific orders to his generals. I think he was a great man.