GDG- Custer (and Gettysburg) On the Tube Again

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/18/2012 5:51:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
georgeconnell at mac.com writes:

I think  his judgement was bad even then (though that goes with being a 
cavalryman) and  was extremely lucky to have avoided destruction several times. 
This flaw  should have been spotted by discerning seniors, but it wasn't 
and he got a  bunch of poor soldiers killed as a result.

Soldiers have to die in  wars, but I'm very hard on officers who waste the 
lives of their  men.
 
Did Lee waste the lives of his men?  I think that on some  battlefields the 
answer would be "yes" (like Malvern Hill and the PPT  Charge).
 
Bruce  Trinque
Amston, CT