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To: longnshort who wrote (223952)	10/13/2007 9:11:44 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793597

Lee was a rightous man and Grant was a drunk-lol. A great book is "The Killing Angels" about the battle of Gettysburg. I read it cover to cover. Lee made some huge mistakes there. I think he was just real sick, old, tired and filled with pain and his mind stopped working. Longstreet saw clearly both the bad decision to send Hood up a protecteced hill to the right, instead of going around behind; and so he lost half his forces to a few Union sharpshooters on a ridge. Then the infamous Picketts Charge. Longstreet said it was an equation Lee didn't see. Lee could not see you cannot send troops over a mile of open ground with Union sharpshooters with modern rifels, sitting on a ridge ,then those that do make it have them climb up a hill and still be able to fight. Almost all of Picketts men were killed. Longstreet wanted to pull back to a fortified position and let the Union army come to them.Which they would have. Longstreet was dead right. Longstreet was right about everything and Lee's most trusted advisor, but vilified after the war. For his liberal ideas-lol.