Posted on 05/11/2018 6:38:27 AM PDT by fugazi
You may very well be right about the “myth”. I’d not be surprised at all if Stuart was made a scapegoat for Saint Robert’s errors. But in practical terms and as it turned out, anything Stuart might have reported about Union troop movements around Gettysburg would have been worth far more to Lee than the booty he collected in the rich southeast Pennsylvania countryside. One cannot blame him or Lee for enacting some revenge for the depredations of Union forces on Southern resources, but it did blind the Confederate commander to what he actually faced and is an example of how any battle hinges on so many individual decisions.
That McKinney feat is awesome. Like an Old Testament story.
J.E.B.’s a great...great granduncle of mine. Family tradition is he was just as most think of him.
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