Posted on 07/01/2017 10:32:42 AM PDT by JBW1949
Sounds good to me....
I’ve had a few occasions myself. My religious belief tells me that there is no such thing yet there they were. Either demons or some sort of echo or shadow from the past. No attempt to manipulate or even awareness that I could see, so over time I’ve concluded that I was actually seeing a glimpse of the past.
I rather expect those twits realized that if they showed up there doing their usual nonsense, there’d be enough people to tramp them into red mud... would enjoy doing it too. As such, they weaseled out of their scheme.
That very well could be the case...I truly hope that the real Americans take it to them the next time they try to pull their BS....
Yeah, that’s what it is. They know they will get creamed.
Lo Armistead survived also and later became very critiical of Lee. He was against this battle. Told Lee the enemy has the better ground!. He wanted to leave and fight another day when the odds were with them. Lee said my enemy is here so here is where i will meet them.
my mistake it was Longstreet not Armistead.
It was Armistead, wounded on the third of July, died on the 5th. I knew Reynolds was lost initially, but I don’t remember the other generals. On the Confederate side, generals Semmes, Barksdale, “Armistead”, Garnett, and Pender (plus Pettigrew during the retreat). On the Union side, generals Reynolds, Zook, Weed, and Farnsworth (and Vincent, promoted posthumously). No other battle claimed as many general officers. Union general Francis Barlow was severely wounded and thought to have died on the battlefield. Years later at a political affair in NY or DC someone asked him if he was related to the General Barlow who was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, to which he answered; “I am the General Barlow who was killed at battle of Gettysburg”. If Armistead was critical of Lee after the war, it had to be at a seance????
Longstreet? Nope, he had a successful career after the war.
Back in the 70’s, I was in the NY monument on the top of Round Top by the General Warren Statue, it was shortly after July 4th. It’s still the most peaceful memory of well being I ever had. It was late afternoon, I took shelter in the monument from the rain and watched the thunder storm as it passed over the battlefield. There was a cool fresh gentle breeze after the storm. I looked out on the battlefield and remembered, that there was a storm after the battle. It must have been God shedding tears. All the wars we were in none cost as many lives as the one America fought against itself. Lets not hope for another one.
After retreating from Cemetery ridge Gen Lee feared a union counter attack and asked Gen. Picket to rally his division. His reply was “Sir, I no longer have a division”.
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