GDG- army logistics and supply
dherko at kc.rr.com
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Tue Jan 31 10:21:50 CST 2012
Fort Leavenworth Command and General Staff College has a few pamphlets on railroads and the overland campaign
---- Larry Tagg <larryrtagg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> I need to find out about the logistics and supply for both armies in the East during the Civil War. Can anybody suggest a good book on the subject?
>
> Larry
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> 1. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (dherko at kc.rr.com)
> 2. Re: William Addleman of the Bucktails (Andy Mills)
> 3. Re: Memoir of post-battle visits to Gettysburg (Matt Diestel)
> 4. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (Andy Mills)
> 5. Re: A little clarification please. (John Lawrence)
> 6. Re: A little clarification please. (John Lawrence)
> 7. Re: A little clarification please. (John Lawrence)
> 8. Re: A little clarification please. (TR) (John Lawrence)
> 9. Re: "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg" (joadx1 at netscape.net)
> 10. ISusquehanna River (128thpa at comcast.net)
> 11. Re: ISusquehanna River (Andy Mills)
> 12. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (John Lawrence)
> 13. Re: ISusquehanna River (128thpa at comcast.net)
> 14. Re: ISusquehanna River (Andy Mills)
> 15. Re: William Addleman of the Bucktails (Dave Glorioso)
> 16. Re: William Addleman of the Bucktails (Jack Lawrence)
> 17. Re: William Addleman of the Bucktails (Andy Mills)
> 18. Re: William Addleman of the Bucktails (keith mackenzie)
> 19. Re: William Addleman of the Bucktails (Jack Lawrence)
> 20. Re: William Addleman of the Bucktails (Tom)
> 21. Re: A little clarification please. (George Connell)
> 22. Re: "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg" (George Connell)
> 23. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (Tom)
> 24. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (George Connell)
> 25. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (George Connell)
> 26. Re: William Addleman of the Bucktails (George Connell)
> 27. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 28. Re: 75th Reunion in Gettysburg in 1938 (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 29. Re: 75th Reunion in Gettysburg in 1938 (Terry Brasko)
> 30. An Interesting Experience (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 31. Re: William Addleman of the Bucktails (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 32. Re: 75th Reunion in Gettysburg in 1938 (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 33. Re: An Interesting Experience (John Grim)
> 34. Re: An Interesting Experience (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 35. Re: An Interesting Experience (John Grim)
> 36. Re: An Interesting Experience (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 37. Re: An Interesting Experience (John Grim)
> 38. Re: An Interesting Experience (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 39. Re: An Interesting Experience (John Grim)
> 40. Re: An Interesting Experience (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 41. Re: An Interesting Experience (John Grim)
> 42. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (Jack Lawrence)
> 43. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 44. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (Jack Lawrence)
> 45. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 46. Re: Al Mackey's Question (ATMackeyJr at aol.com)
> 47. Re: (no subject) (Richard Garrison)
> 48. FW: 75th Reunion in Gettysburg in 1938 (Tom Ryan)
> 49. Re: Memoir of post-battle visits to Gettysburg (Tom Ryan)
> 50. Re: A little clarification please. (John Lawrence)
> 51. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (John Lawrence)
> 52. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (John Lawrence)
> 53. Re: "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg" (John Lawrence)
> 54. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (John Lawrence)
> 55. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (John Lawrence)
> 56. Re: "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg" (George Connell)
> 57. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (George Connell)
> 58. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 59. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (George Connell)
> 60. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (John Grim)
> 61. Re: A little clarification please. (George Connell)
> 62. Re: Lee - Harrisburg (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 63. Re: A little clarification please. (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 64. 166 unsnipped lines (Dennis Lawrence)
> 65. hook - service rivalry (Dennis Lawrence)
> 66. Supoplying the armies (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 67. Re: hook - service rivalry (George Connell)
> 68. Re: Supoplying the armies (George Connell)
> 69. Re: Supoplying the armies (John Grim)
> 70. Re: Supoplying the armies (CWMHTours at aol.com)
> 71. Re: Supoplying the armies (CWMHTours at aol.com)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:00:29 -0500
> From: <dherko at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> John,
>
> that is exactly the shortsidedness of Lee's strategy he convinced Davis to support.
>
> Crops are planted in the Spring and harvested in the fall. Lee could not possibly stay up North for that length of time. He could not have possibly protected Virginia's corps for an enitre planitng season.
>
> As for Vicksburg. By late June, Vicksburg was gone. Once Lee convince Davis of a course of action, the garrison's fate was sealed. Had Lee won on July 3rd (before he really planned to fight Meade) Pemberton had surrendered, he was just trying to negotiate a better deal.
>
> Until Grant came East, there was not a Northern General that could lace Lee's boots on the tactical battlefield. Lee however, fought for Virginia and Vriginia alone. He completely failed to understand the implications of losing Vicksburg. He was resistant to send troops to the Carolina coast, did not want Longstreet to go to Chickamauga. He was myopic on Strategy, he protected Virginia and Virginia was in the fight until the end.
>
> VR
> Don
>
> ---- John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Esteemed Members
> >
> > Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> > Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to take
> > the war away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and
> > that troops might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be
> > political advantage to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful
> > east of Harrisburg with the river at his back and having to contend with
> > Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and its forts as well as the various
> > units of the Union army gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not
> > regulars but they can picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally
> > get in the way. Lee's communications and supply lines would be extended
> > further and further and he would be further away from the protection of the
> > mountains and their passes. As it was it took him 10 days to get back to
> > Virginia from Gettysburg. He may have been able to live off the land near
> > Harrisburg but where would his munitions and replacements come from?? How
> > long could he stay away from Richmond with only Corse and Jenkins covering
> > that area? I just don't see it but I am willing to consider other
> > opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for broke. He had limited goals
> > and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> > probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably would
> > not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:16:04 +0000
> From: Andy Mills <amills at jplcreative.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
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> Another quasi related Civil War story of the area, although it is about 40 miles from Benezette, is a visit to Kinzua Bridge ( http://www.smethporthistory.org/kinzuaviaduct/index.htm ), which was originally built by General Thomas Kane (whom has a town named after him a few miles from there). His home is also a bed and breakfast, called Kane Manor, http://kanemanor.com/ in the town of Kane, which is quite an impressive home. I believe he was the person responsible for organizing the original Bucktails, but please correct me if mistaken.
>
> If you have extra time, I would suggest a visit there. Although about 1/2 the bridge was destroyed in a tornado in 2003 (and as luck would have it, the state was in the process of stabilizing the bridge just as the tornado hit the very center of it, bringing down the couple of supports not yet strengthened). You can still see the fallen supports in the valley. They did recently re-deck the portion of the bridge still standing and put in a glass bottom so you can look down, all 301 feet to the valley below. You can still get a good feel for the marvel of this bridge but unfortunately, can no longer cross the entire structure. Years ago, we took a train across the bridge and have a very humorous tale that occurred that day.
>
> That is about the only other Civil War related story I can think of (I am not sure if it is technically Civil War related, but if you admire General Kane [sorry, I get confused if I just use his last name, due to the town also being called Kane]), this is a must see site or if those pesky elk refuse to come out.
>
> On another treasure related aspect, there is also said to be a stash of gold buried within sight of the bridge left there by a bank robber who never was able to come back and claim it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of Tom
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:53 PM
> To: GDG
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
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> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Thanks Andy - I'm jealous - we love your area - and the folks are really nice (they don't hunt & eat tourists - that's a good thing ;-D) Visitor's center is awesome - but the crowds are getting worse each year we go.
> Whoever thought you could see elk in the wild in Pennsylvania. And you're right - it is the Caledonia Pike. Had no idea of the Civil War related matters in the area, makes it that more enjoyable. Civil War related - the Bucktails were a tough bunch - derived from the lumber industry etc. - if we ever move - PA's the place - Gettysburg,Lancaster, Benezette - a dream land of my hobbies. = (Civil War-Food-Elk).
>
> Regards,
> Tom B.
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:22:29 -0800
> From: Matt Diestel <agatematt at gmail.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Memoir of post-battle visits to Gettysburg
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> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Tom Ryan Contributes:
> >
>
>
> > Issue 46 of Gettysburg Magazine includes an article about a memoir by a
> > Lutheran minister, Rev. Franklin Sshantz, who visited the battlefield
> > immediately after the fighting ended, July 7-9, a couple weeks later, July
> > 22-27, and at the time of the National Cemetery dedication, July 17-20.
> > Very interesting and detailed observations about the scene on the
> > battlefield (bodies still lying around unburied), the makeshift hospitals
> > in
> > barns, farmhouses and private homes, and the parade and dedication of the
> > cemetery where he heard "Remarks by President Lincoln." Dr. Schantz was
> > also in attendance when Lincoln spoke to a crowd that had gathered outside
> > of a home (presumably David Wills' house on the square).
> >
> > The article focuses primarily on the Eleventh Corps hospital at the
> > Spangler
> > Farm, acquired by the Gettysburg Foundation in recent years and targeted
> > for
> > future restoration. The article is also a plea for donations to speed this
> > restoration process along.
> >
> > One comment that caught my eye on that on July 8, a couple of days after
> > the
> > Union army had left Gettysburg, Dr. Schantz observed "a large body of
> > Cavalry starting on a march to join the army which had left Gettysburg.
> > The
> > left in a heavy rain."
> >
> > He did not explain what "a large body of Cavalry" consisted of, but I am
> > curious what unit this cavalry was part of, and why they were still in
> > Gettysburg while Meade was in pursuit of Lee's retreating army?
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Tom Ryan
> >
> > Tom,
> >
> Coddington on page 544 of his "The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in
> Command" in which he notes the movement of the AOP's cavalry in the days
> following the battle contains the following: "Pleasanton, for reasons not
> known, stripped General Gregg, an able and experienced brigadier, of his
> entire command and apparently left him with nothing to do until July 9,
> when one of his brigades finally reported back to him for orders."
> At that time, the AOP's 2nd Cavalry Division consisted of three
> brigades commanded by McIntosh, Huey had been back at Westminster guarding
> the army's main supply depot during the battle.
> That "large body of cavalry" would seem to have either been McIntosh's
> or Gregg's brigade since on the 4th, Pleasanton had told Kilpatrick to take
> his division to Emmittsburg where he would find Huey's Brigade waiting,
> which had been brought over from Westminster to be ready to pounce on any
> of Lee's trains moving south via Hagerstown (Coddington, Pg. 544). Given
> that Huey had already deployed that far south, it would seem strange that
> the brigade would then be pulled all the way back to Gettysburg simply to
> report to Gregg for orders. But with Pleasanton, one never knows.
> However, it would seem that the "large body of cavalry" must have
> been one of Gregg's brigades and Shantz had the wrong date of July 8 for
> when he saw the cavalry.
> With regards,
> Chet
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:23:42 +0000
> From: Andy Mills <amills at jplcreative.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> It makes perfect sense though if the real motivation was simply to keep his precious ANV together and not have part of it shipped off to Vicksburg. Lee couldn't be straight with Davis about this and came up with the crop story as a sidebar to his real motivations. When asked why troops shouldn't be sent to Vicksburg, Lee couldn't simply state "because I don't want to send them." He had to present a valid case for keeping them assigned to his army.
>
> Just don't ask me to prove this, but this is my belief of the true reason he invaded the North - to keep the ANV intact, the army he had "nurtured and created" (yes, I am aware technically the army existed prior to his command, but no one in the Confederacy remembers an army pre June 1862).
>
> Thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of dherko at kc.rr.com
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:00 PM
> To: GDG
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> John,
>
> that is exactly the shortsidedness of Lee's strategy he convinced Davis to support.
>
> Crops are planted in the Spring and harvested in the fall. Lee could not possibly stay up North for that length of time. He could not have possibly protected Virginia's corps for an enitre planitng season.
>
> As for Vicksburg. By late June, Vicksburg was gone. Once Lee convince Davis of a course of action, the garrison's fate was sealed. Had Lee won on July 3rd (before he really planned to fight Meade) Pemberton had surrendered, he was just trying to negotiate a better deal.
>
> Until Grant came East, there was not a Northern General that could lace Lee's boots on the tactical battlefield. Lee however, fought for Virginia and Vriginia alone. He completely failed to understand the implications of losing Vicksburg. He was resistant to send troops to the Carolina coast, did not want Longstreet to go to Chickamauga. He was myopic on Strategy, he protected Virginia and Virginia was in the fight until the end.
>
> VR
> Don
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:39:17 -0600
> From: John Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
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> Well, Lee personally never was going to Harrisburg. He did direct troops there as part of a larger diversion to draw the AoP out of his rear.
> It was a raid designed for that purpose.
> I do not recall saying there was to be no action there.
> It us the aggrandizing of the action I was refuting.
> Regards,
> Jack
>
>
> George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >Jack,
> >
> >So Lee was going to Harrisburg after all? I believe you're had an epiphany! Hope reigns!
> >
> >George
> >26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >
> >On Jan 26, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Jack Lawrence wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Not that it makes a difference, but that is my take also.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Jack
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Baetz" <wbaetz at mac.com>
> >> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:51 PM
> >> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
> >>
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> I tend to favor the notion that Harrisburg was a decoy to draw Union forces out into the open. I absolutely believe that Lee would have sent forces into the city, primarily to destroy railroad infrastructure, damage manufacturing operations, capture supplies, and generally create further panic in the north, but holding the city was never an option. I believe there was a relatively small window of opportunity for the ANV to operate in Pennsylvania.
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:13 PM, keith mackenzie wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>> I've read a couple of posts where the esteemed member insisted that Lee did not intend to hold Harrisburg if he did in fact assault and take it.
> >>>> I don't know if it was more than one poster or only one several times.
> >>>> My
> >>>> question is, does anyone think he would have attempted to hold it? I don't think anyone has put forward that POV, but I might have missed it.
> >>>> thanks
> >>>> K.
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:18:47 -0600
> From: John Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
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> Not so far that he was more than a day from the valley.
>
> keith mackenzie <bluzdad at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >It seems that everyone agrees that if Lee had gone to Harrisburg, he would not have tried to stay there any longer than necessary. So then, the contentious issue is wether he really planned on going there at all??
> >?
> >?(This is a "Just Occurred to Me" question): If his goal was to draw the AoP north, how?far north was far enough?
> >K.
> >?
> >?
> >
> >________________________________
> >???>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> I tend to favor the notion that Harrisburg was a decoy to draw Union forces out into the open. I absolutely believe that Lee would have? sent forces into the city, primarily to destroy railroad? infrastructure, damage manufacturing operations, capture supplies, and? generally create further panic in the north, but holding the city was? never an option. I believe there was a relatively small window of? opportunity for the ANV to operate in Pennsylvania.
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:13 PM, keith mackenzie wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>> I've read a couple of posts where the esteemed member insisted that? Lee did not intend to hold Harrisburg if he did in fact assault and? take it.
> >>>> I don't know if it was more than one poster or only one several times.
> >>>> My
> >>>> question is, does anyone think he would have attempted to hold it? I don't think anyone has put forward that POV, but I might have missed? it.
> >>>> thanks
> >>>> K.
> >>>>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:22:55 -0600
> From: John Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
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> One huge advantage for Army of the Potomac were the interior railroad lines. The resupply of the AoP was done almost totally by rail. Lee could not compete with that. Lee could live off the land but he could not rear arm off the land (nor would it have been practice t string his trains to Harrisburg). In fact, Lee could not live off the land without moving. As Grant had learned in Mississippi the year before, an army can sustain itself in country previously untouched by war, but it can only sit in one place briefly.
> lee did not have the luxury to sit still.
> The quandary was that every foot he took outside of the Cumberland was a foot towards extinction.
> Lee had limited options, and limited means to exercise them with.
> Nowhere among those options I'd there any political gain. In fact, the whole fiasco was helping seal the foreign intervention option.
> Regards,
> Jack
>
>
>
>
> Tom Barrett <tbarrett21 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >
> >From a military standpoint, I think he wanted to draw the AoP far enough so
> >that they were separated from their supply and support bases and far enough
> >that they would be tired, scattered, and not able to concentrate
> >effectively. Drawing them toward Harrisburg was a good plan, but spreading
> >them out would have been even better, so the AoP Corps couldn't quickly
> >support one another.
> >
> >I think he figured that his forces would be more rested and better
> >concentrated than the AoP, and that he'd pick off and defeat the Union units
> >as they came north.
> >
> >As it turned out, Gettysburg wasn't far enough, and the AoP was well
> >organized, well supplied, and was able to concentrate effectively. For
> >whatever reason, Lee chose to attack anyway.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >TB
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> >On Behalf Of keith mackenzie
> >Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:03 PM
> >To: GDG
> >Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
> >
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >It seems that everyone agrees that if Lee had gone to Harrisburg, he would
> >not have tried to stay there any longer than necessary. So then, the
> >contentious issue is wether he really planned on going there at all??
> >?
> >?(This is a "Just Occurred to Me" question): If his goal was to draw the AoP
> >north, how?far north was far enough?
> >K.
> >?
> >?
> >
> >________________________________
> >???>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> I tend to favor the notion that Harrisburg was a decoy to draw Union
> >forces out into the open. I absolutely believe that Lee would have? sent
> >forces into the city, primarily to destroy railroad? infrastructure, damage
> >manufacturing operations, capture supplies, and? generally create further
> >panic in the north, but holding the city was? never an option. I believe
> >there was a relatively small window of? opportunity for the ANV to operate
> >in Pennsylvania.
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:13 PM, keith mackenzie wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>> I've read a couple of posts where the esteemed member insisted that? Lee
> >did not intend to hold Harrisburg if he did in fact assault and? take it.
> >>>> I don't know if it was more than one poster or only one several times.
> >>>> My
> >>>> question is, does anyone think he would have attempted to hold it? I
> >don't think anyone has put forward that POV, but I might have missed? it.
> >>>> thanks
> >>>> K.
> >>>>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:24:07 -0600
> From: John Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please. (TR)
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> IMHO. Gettysburg was about as far out of the valley as Lee cared to go.
> Should he (unlikely) have dislodged the AoP any pursuit could only ended IP as a disaster for the ANV
>
> Regards,
> Jack
>
>
> keith mackenzie <bluzdad at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >Tom R:? If this is the lengthy response to which you are referring, which?I did read entirely, and then again, and to be sure, yet again,?I can't find any mention of how far north Lee was prepared to go, in a physical, geographical sense.
> >?You answered my original question in the first paragraph. So it's very likely that my AADD kicked in shortly after reading it. (OOOH LOOK! A PUPPY!)
> >Never mind though, TB's??response? came close.
> >?
> >("As it turned out, Gettysburg wasn't far enough...")
> >?
> >K,
> >?
> >?
> >?
> >?
> >
> >________________________________
> >From: Tom Ryan <pennmardel at mchsi.com>
> >To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> >Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:19 PM
> >Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
> >
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >Keith,
> >
> >My understanding of Lee's intent regarding the invasion was to capture an
> >important town or city.? The capture would be sufficient to embarrass the
> >Federal government, and impress potential foreign allies such as Britain and
> >France.? There was no need to hold the captured location for any length of
> >time in order to accomplish these goals.
> >
> >One of Lee's objectives was to motivate the Northern population to press
> >Washington to bring about a peace settlement, and the capture of a major
> >city or town would fit the bill nicely along those lines.
> >
> >It should also be noted that Lee wanted to lead the Peace Democrats
> >(Copperheads) and others who favored a settlement with the South to believe
> >the South was serious about ending the war and reuniting with the North.? As
> >he mentioned to President Davis in his proposal along these lines, there
> >would be no intent to actually rejoin the Union once a ceasefire/settlement
> >was reached.
> >
> >It appears that Lee was being more than a bit devious in this respect.
> >
> >In a lengthy and revealing message to President Davis on June 10, 1863 (as
> >the invasion was about to get underway), Lee made a number of observations
> >of how the war could be won by other than debilitating military means.? The
> >following excerpt sums up Lee's approach:
> >
> >"Should the belief [in the North] that peace will bring back the Union
> >become general, the war would no longer be supported....? When peace is
> >proposed to us...it is not the part of prudence to spurn the
> >proposition...[to] those who wish to...believe...that it will result in
> >bringing us back to the Union.? We entertain no such aspirations...the
> >desire of our people for a distinct and independent national existence will
> >prove as steadfast under the influence of peaceful measures as it has shown
> >itself in the midst of war."? See OR, 27, III, pp. 880-82.
> >
> >Suggest you read this entire lengthily message.? It is one of the most frank
> >and revealing missives that Lee wrote during the Gettysburg Campaign, and
> >perhaps during the entire war.
> >
> >Regards, Tom Ryan
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com
> >[mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]On Behalf Of keith mackenzie
> >Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:13 PM
> >To: GDG
> >Subject: GDG- A little clarification please.
> >
> >
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >I've read a couple of posts where the esteemed member insisted that Lee did
> >not intend to hold Harrisburg if he did in fact assault and take it.
> >I don't know if it was more than one poster or only one several times.
> >My
> >question is, does anyone think he would have attempted to hold it??I don't
> >think anyone has put forward that POV, but I might have missed it.
> >thanks
> >K.
> >-
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> Message: 9
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:52:50 -0500 (EST)
> From: joadx1 at netscape.net
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg"
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> When all is said and done, I think that the reason the ANV lost the battle of Gettysburg can be traced to its prior experience with the commanders of the AoP. We all here know that when the AoP got hit hard in the past, its commanding general usually ordered a retreat--especially as at Seven Pines through the Seven Days (often after a Union tactical victory in a given engagement) and Chancellorsville (which, even after the Jackson-led flank attack should have been a Union victory). According to that pattern, the AoP should (from Lee's point of view) have retreated after getting hit hard on Day 1 at Gettysburg. When the AoP held its ground south of the town, Lee, on the basis of past experience, rather understandably believed that another hard hit should do the trick. Day 2 was quite a series of hard hits. Still, the AoP failed to behave according to past performance. At this point I think we can say that Lee, so to speak, got emotional,
> rather like a gambler who has had a winning streak and cannot believe that his luck has turned. So he tosses the dice once more, and so we have day 3, and once again the AoP doesn't flinch.
>
> Same thing happened in the Forty Days.
>
> In short, as Pickett's old line has it, "the Yankees had something to do with it." Meade (and, later, Grant) simply weren't McClellan and Hooker. Had Grant been in charge at Seven Pines, the war would have ended in 1862 in a Union victory, ironically, as McPherson points out, with a restoration of the Union with slavery intact. The prolonging of the war only intensified the depth of the eventual defeat.
>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:18:37 +0000 (UTC)
> From: 128thpa at comcast.net
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: GDG- ISusquehanna River
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> <<Another quasi related Civil War story of the area, although it is about 40 miles from Benezette, is a visit to Kinzua Bridge ( http://www.smethporthistory.org/kinzuaviaduct/index.htm ), which was originally built by General Thomas Kane (whom has a town named after him a few miles from there). His home is also a bed and breakfast, called Kane Manor, http://kanemanor.com/ in the town of Kane, which is quite an impressive home. I believe he was the person responsible for organizing the original Bucktails, but please correct me if mistaken. >
>
> ?
>
> Was there the summer of 2002 before the bridge came down - an incredible feature.? Thomas Leiper Kane was born in Philadelphia - yes he helped to raise the 42nd Pa.? His brother is the Arctic explorer, Elisha Root Kane who wrote a well received book on his travels.? Elisha is buried in Laural Hill Cemetery.? IIRC, Thomas Kane had been buried there one time as he died while in Philadelphia and then was moved to Kane, Pa.? Thomas Kane was named after I believe his grandfather, Thomas Leiper who was an inventor.?He is created with?building the first documented railroad on his estate. ? The family estate Avondale, is right outside Philadelphia and can be toured.? A family of overachievers.
>
> ?
>
> Also, Duncannon was mentioned - if anyone goes definitely?check out the Sled Works -? http://www.sledworks.com/ ? It is an antique place with an old fashion soda fountain that makes great milkshakes.
>
> ?
>
> Also the last operating ferry across the Susquehanna (at least it was a few years ago) is at Millersville on the east side.? I can't find a website for it, but according to wikipedia it was still running in 2011.? ?I tried to take it once - but as we arrived, a lightening storm came through the area and thought better of it.? Millersville University?has a very interesting campus with lots of history.?
>
> ?
>
> Paula
>
> ?
>
>
>
> ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
>
>
> From: "Andy Mills" <amills at jplcreative.com>
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 10:40:27 AM
> Subject: Re: GDG- ISusquehanna River
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Jeff:
>
> Thanks for the information (and like the witticism at the end). ?It makes sense to cover a normal bridge, it just surprised me a railroad bridge would be covered. ?I learn everyday how my assumptions are incorrect, mostly though the corrections come from my wife ;-)
>
> Out of curiosity: ?is the Marysville Bridge the location of the Statue of Liberty in the river? ?This is a bit north of Marysville (more like Duncannon I believe) but it seems where the Statue of Liberty is located could easily be a trestle / support column. ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Burk
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:51 AM
> To: GDG
> Subject: Re: GDG- ISusquehanna River
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Andy, the Rockville Bridge is a bit south of the ruined Marysville Bridge.
> ?
> A wooden bridge has a life span of about ten to fifteen? years.? If you cover it the life span increases to about seventy to?eighty years.? Also Covered Bridges are way cooler then regular ones.
> ?
> ?
> ?
> ?
>
> ?Namaste
> ?
> Jeff Burk
>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:28:00 +0000
> From: Andy Mills <amills at jplcreative.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- ISusquehanna River
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> Paula:
>
> The site seems to be in need of repair. The only pictures I could find were here: http://www.livingplaces.com/PA/Delaware_County/Nether_Providence_Township/Avondale.html
>
> Being B&W, it makes it little hard to tell, but it does seem to need some attention.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of 128thpa at comcast.net
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:19 PM
> To: GDG
> Subject: GDG- ISusquehanna River
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
> Was there the summer of 2002 before the bridge came down - an incredible feature.? Thomas Leiper Kane was born in Philadelphia - yes he helped to raise the 42nd Pa.? His brother is the Arctic explorer, Elisha Root Kane who wrote a well received book on his travels.? Elisha is buried in Laural Hill Cemetery.? IIRC, Thomas Kane had been buried there one time as he died while in Philadelphia and then was moved to Kane, Pa.? Thomas Kane was named after I believe his grandfather, Thomas Leiper who was an inventor.?He is created with?building the first documented railroad on his estate. ? The family estate Avondale, is right outside Philadelphia and can be toured.? A family of overachievers.
>
> Also, Duncannon was mentioned - if anyone goes definitely?check out the Sled Works -? http://www.sledworks.com/ ? It is an antique place with an old fashion soda fountain that makes great milkshakes.
>
> Also the last operating ferry across the Susquehanna (at least it was a few years ago) is at Millersville on the east side.? I can't find a website for it, but according to wikipedia it was still running in 2011.? ?I tried to take it once - but as we arrived, a lightening storm came through the area and thought better of it.? Millersville University?has a very interesting campus with lots of history.?
>
> Paula
>
>
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> Message: 12
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:12:14 -0600
> From: John Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> Lee was a Lee of Virginia.
> Hi people had been of Virginia be fire their was a United States. They hailed from a place so remote it was once bombaeded by pirates.
> To the Lees, Virginia WAS their country.
> Lee entered service in the Confederacy not out of treason nor did he hold allegiance to the Confederacy. He e was a Lee OF Virginia. Lee entered the service of the Confederacy to serve Virginia only.
> So when Lee took his forces north, he did it only to spare Virginia. He cared not if the Confederacy died.
> Virginia must be spared.
> Regards,
> Jack
>
> dherko at kc.rr.com wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >John,
> >
> >that is exactly the shortsidedness of Lee's strategy he convinced Davis to support.
> >
> >Crops are planted in the Spring and harvested in the fall. Lee could not possibly stay up North for that length of time. He could not have possibly protected Virginia's corps for an enitre planitng season.
> >
> >As for Vicksburg. By late June, Vicksburg was gone. Once Lee convince Davis of a course of action, the garrison's fate was sealed. Had Lee won on July 3rd (before he really planned to fight Meade) Pemberton had surrendered, he was just trying to negotiate a better deal.
> >
> >Until Grant came East, there was not a Northern General that could lace Lee's boots on the tactical battlefield. Lee however, fought for Virginia and Vriginia alone. He completely failed to understand the implications of losing Vicksburg. He was resistant to send troops to the Carolina coast, did not want Longstreet to go to Chickamauga. He was myopic on Strategy, he protected Virginia and Virginia was in the fight until the end.
> >
> >VR
> > Don
> >
> >---- John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Esteemed Members
> >>
> >> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> >> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to take
> >> the war away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and
> >> that troops might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be
> >> political advantage to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful
> >> east of Harrisburg with the river at his back and having to contend with
> >> Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and its forts as well as the various
> >> units of the Union army gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not
> >> regulars but they can picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally
> >> get in the way. Lee's communications and supply lines would be extended
> >> further and further and he would be further away from the protection of the
> >> mountains and their passes. As it was it took him 10 days to get back to
> >> Virginia from Gettysburg. He may have been able to live off the land near
> >> Harrisburg but where would his munitions and replacements come from?? How
> >> long could he stay away from Richmond with only Corse and Jenkins covering
> >> that area? I just don't see it but I am willing to consider other
> >> opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for broke. He had limited goals
> >> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> >> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably would
> >> not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 13
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:43:38 +0000 (UTC)
> From: 128thpa at comcast.net
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- ISusquehanna River
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> <<The site seems to be in need of repair. The only pictures I could find were here: http://www.livingplaces.com/PA/Delaware_County/Nether_Providence_Township/Avondale.html
>
> Being B&W, it makes it little hard to tell, but it does seem to need some attention. >>
>
>
> Andy:? As most historic sites now a days - the funding is little or nothing.? I visited there when I knew the site manager and actually her family lived in part of the house.? But they eventually left there.? I don't know the status today - but I would guess by the fact that they stated if you want to take tours contact the Friends group that they have no paid staff there.? I know that has been the fate of many historic sites in Pennsylvania.? Some sites had to close, others are open on a limited basis due to very dedicated volunteers.
> ?
> Paula
>
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> Message: 14
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:50:50 +0000
> From: Andy Mills <amills at jplcreative.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- ISusquehanna River
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> Thanks Paula....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of 128thpa at comcast.net
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:44 PM
> To: GDG
> Subject: Re: GDG- ISusquehanna River
>
> Andy:? As most historic sites now a days - the funding is little or nothing.? I visited there when I knew the site manager and actually her family lived in part of the house.? But they eventually left there.? I don't know the status today - but I would guess by the fact that they stated if you want to take tours contact the Friends group that they have no paid staff there.? I know that has been the fate of many historic sites in Pennsylvania.? Some sites had to close, others are open on a limited basis due to very dedicated volunteers.
> ?
> Paula
>
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>
> Message: 15
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:03:51 -0500
> From: Dave Glorioso <glory at zbzoom.net>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
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> You are right
> Organized bucktails
> Staunch abolitionist
> He was also friends with Brigham Young
> Kane County Utah also named after him
> He has a statue in Utah's Capitol building
> Best part of Kane's history is that he fought alongside Candy on Culps Hill
> Geary had Candy-Kane lost on Baltimore pike and they missed July 2 action
> I like saying Candy-Kane
> ;-)
> Dave
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Andy Mills <amills at jplcreative.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Another quasi related Civil War story of the area, although it is about 40 miles from Benezette, is a visit to Kinzua Bridge ( http://www.smethporthistory.org/kinzuaviaduct/index.htm ), which was originally built by General Thomas Kane (whom has a town named after him a few miles from there). His home is also a bed and breakfast, called Kane Manor, http://kanemanor.com/ in the town of Kane, which is quite an impressive home. I believe he was the person responsible for organizing the original Bucktails, but please correct me if mistaken.
> >
> > If you have extra time, I would suggest a visit there. Although about 1/2 the bridge was destroyed in a tornado in 2003 (and as luck would have it, the state was in the process of stabilizing the bridge just as the tornado hit the very center of it, bringing down the couple of supports not yet strengthened). You can still see the fallen supports in the valley. They did recently re-deck the portion of the bridge still standing and put in a glass bottom so you can look down, all 301 feet to the valley below. You can still get a good feel for the marvel of this bridge but unfortunately, can no longer cross the entire structure. Years ago, we took a train across the bridge and have a very humorous tale that occurred that day.
> >
> > That is about the only other Civil War related story I can think of (I am not sure if it is technically Civil War related, but if you admire General Kane [sorry, I get confused if I just use his last name, due to the town also being called Kane]), this is a must see site or if those pesky elk refuse to come out.
> >
> > On another treasure related aspect, there is also said to be a stash of gold buried within sight of the bridge left there by a bank robber who never was able to come back and claim it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of Tom
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:53 PM
> > To: GDG
> > Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Thanks Andy - I'm jealous - we love your area - and the folks are really nice (they don't hunt & eat tourists - that's a good thing ;-D) Visitor's center is awesome - but the crowds are getting worse each year we go.
> > Whoever thought you could see elk in the wild in Pennsylvania. And you're right - it is the Caledonia Pike. Had no idea of the Civil War related matters in the area, makes it that more enjoyable. Civil War related - the Bucktails were a tough bunch - derived from the lumber industry etc. - if we ever move - PA's the place - Gettysburg,Lancaster, Benezette - a dream land of my hobbies. = (Civil War-Food-Elk).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tom B.
> >
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> Message: 16
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:07:11 -0600
> From: "Jack Lawrence" <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
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> candy kane was an actress in the 70's.
> regards,
> jack
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Glorioso" <glory at zbzoom.net>
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:03 PM
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
>
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > You are right
> > Organized bucktails
> > Staunch abolitionist
> > He was also friends with Brigham Young
> > Kane County Utah also named after him
> > He has a statue in Utah's Capitol building
> > Best part of Kane's history is that he fought alongside Candy on Culps
> > Hill
> > Geary had Candy-Kane lost on Baltimore pike and they missed July 2 action
> > I like saying Candy-Kane
> > ;-)
> > Dave
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jan 27, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Andy Mills <amills at jplcreative.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Another quasi related Civil War story of the area, although it is about
> >> 40 miles from Benezette, is a visit to Kinzua Bridge (
> >> http://www.smethporthistory.org/kinzuaviaduct/index.htm ), which was
> >> originally built by General Thomas Kane (whom has a town named after him
> >> a few miles from there). His home is also a bed and breakfast, called
> >> Kane Manor, http://kanemanor.com/ in the town of Kane, which is quite an
> >> impressive home. I believe he was the person responsible for organizing
> >> the original Bucktails, but please correct me if mistaken.
> >>
> >> If you have extra time, I would suggest a visit there. Although about
> >> 1/2 the bridge was destroyed in a tornado in 2003 (and as luck would have
> >> it, the state was in the process of stabilizing the bridge just as the
> >> tornado hit the very center of it, bringing down the couple of supports
> >> not yet strengthened). You can still see the fallen supports in the
> >> valley. They did recently re-deck the portion of the bridge still
> >> standing and put in a glass bottom so you can look down, all 301 feet to
> >> the valley below. You can still get a good feel for the marvel of this
> >> bridge but unfortunately, can no longer cross the entire structure.
> >> Years ago, we took a train across the bridge and have a very humorous
> >> tale that occurred that day.
> >>
> >> That is about the only other Civil War related story I can think of (I am
> >> not sure if it is technically Civil War related, but if you admire
> >> General Kane [sorry, I get confused if I just use his last name, due to
> >> the town also being called Kane]), this is a must see site or if those
> >> pesky elk refuse to come out.
> >>
> >> On another treasure related aspect, there is also said to be a stash of
> >> gold buried within sight of the bridge left there by a bank robber who
> >> never was able to come back and claim it.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com
> >> [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of Tom
> >> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:53 PM
> >> To: GDG
> >> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
> >>
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Thanks Andy - I'm jealous - we love your area - and the folks are
> >> really nice (they don't hunt & eat tourists - that's a good thing ;-D)
> >> Visitor's center is awesome - but the crowds are getting worse each year
> >> we go.
> >> Whoever thought you could see elk in the wild in Pennsylvania. And you're
> >> right - it is the Caledonia Pike. Had no idea of the Civil War related
> >> matters in the area, makes it that more enjoyable. Civil War related -
> >> the Bucktails were a tough bunch - derived from the lumber industry
> >> etc. - if we ever move - PA's the place - Gettysburg,Lancaster,
> >> Benezette - a dream land of my hobbies. = (Civil War-Food-Elk).
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Tom B.
> >>
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> Message: 17
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:12:13 +0000
> From: Andy Mills <amills at jplcreative.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
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> Although having died in 1974, she has appeared in 4 films since 2002 with the latest being 2010 (according to Wikipedia).
>
> Sort of remind me of the Monty Python sketch about Marilyn Monroe.......
>
> Thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of Jack Lawrence
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:07 PM
> To: GDG
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> candy kane was an actress in the 70's.
> regards,
> jack
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 18
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:14:25 -0800 (PST)
> From: keith mackenzie <bluzdad at yahoo.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
> Message-ID:
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> I like saying "Greene, Candy, Kane"
> ?
> ?
> "Hello! I'm The Doctor." (Dr. Who)
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Dave Glorioso <glory at zbzoom.net>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:03 PM
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> You are right
> Organized bucktails
> Staunch abolitionist
> He was also friends with Brigham Young
> Kane County Utah also named after him
> He has a statue in Utah's Capitol building
> Best part of Kane's history is that he fought alongside Candy on Culps Hill
> Geary had Candy-Kane lost on Baltimore pike and they missed July 2 action
> I like saying Candy-Kane
> ;-)
> Dave
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Andy Mills <amills at jplcreative.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Another quasi related Civil War story of the area, although it is about 40 miles from Benezette, is a visit to Kinzua Bridge ( http://www.smethporthistory.org/kinzuaviaduct/index.htm ), which was originally built by General Thomas Kane (whom has a town named after him a few miles from there).? His home is also a bed and breakfast, called Kane Manor, http://kanemanor.com/ in the town of Kane, which is quite an impressive home.? I believe he was the person responsible for organizing the original Bucktails, but please correct me if mistaken.?
> >
> > If you have extra time, I would suggest a visit there.? Although about 1/2 the bridge was destroyed in a tornado in 2003 (and as luck would have it, the state was in the process of stabilizing the bridge just as the tornado hit the very center of it, bringing down the couple of supports not yet strengthened).? You can still see the fallen supports in the valley.? They did recently re-deck the portion of the bridge still standing and put in a glass bottom so you can look down, all 301 feet to the valley below.? You can still get a good feel for the marvel of this bridge but unfortunately, can no longer cross the entire structure.? Years ago, we took a train across the bridge and have a very humorous tale that occurred that day.?
> >
> > That is about the only other Civil War related story I can think of (I am not sure if it is technically Civil War related, but if you admire General Kane [sorry, I get confused if I just use his last name, due to the town also being called Kane]), this is a must see site or if those pesky elk refuse to come out.?
> >
> > On another treasure related aspect, there is also said to be a stash of gold buried within sight of the bridge left there by a bank robber who never was able to come back and claim it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of Tom
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:53 PM
> > To: GDG
> > Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >? Thanks Andy - I'm jealous - we love your area - and the folks are really nice (they don't hunt & eat tourists - that's a good thing ;-D) Visitor's center is awesome - but the crowds are getting worse each year we go.
> > Whoever thought you could see elk in the wild in Pennsylvania. And you're right - it is the Caledonia Pike. Had no idea of the Civil War related matters in the area, makes it that more enjoyable. Civil War related - the Bucktails were a tough bunch - derived from the lumber industry etc. - if we ever move - PA's the place - Gettysburg,Lancaster, Benezette - a dream land of my hobbies. = (Civil War-Food-Elk).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tom B.
> >
> >
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> Message: 19
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:22:04 -0600
> From: "Jack Lawrence" <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
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> I appreciated her early work.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jack
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "keith mackenzie" <bluzdad at yahoo.com>
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:14 PM
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
>
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> I like saying "Greene, Candy, Kane"
>
>
> "Hello! I'm The Doctor." (Dr. Who)
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Dave Glorioso <glory at zbzoom.net>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:03 PM
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> You are right
> Organized bucktails
> Staunch abolitionist
> He was also friends with Brigham Young
> Kane County Utah also named after him
> He has a statue in Utah's Capitol building
> Best part of Kane's history is that he fought alongside Candy on Culps Hill
> Geary had Candy-Kane lost on Baltimore pike and they missed July 2 action
> I like saying Candy-Kane
> ;-)
> Dave
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Andy Mills <amills at jplcreative.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Another quasi related Civil War story of the area, although it is about 40
> > miles from Benezette, is a visit to Kinzua Bridge (
> > http://www.smethporthistory.org/kinzuaviaduct/index.htm ), which was
> > originally built by General Thomas Kane (whom has a town named after him a
> > few miles from there). His home is also a bed and breakfast, called Kane
> > Manor, http://kanemanor.com/ in the town of Kane, which is quite an
> > impressive home. I believe he was the person responsible for organizing
> > the original Bucktails, but please correct me if mistaken.
> >
> > If you have extra time, I would suggest a visit there. Although about 1/2
> > the bridge was destroyed in a tornado in 2003 (and as luck would have it,
> > the state was in the process of stabilizing the bridge just as the tornado
> > hit the very center of it, bringing down the couple of supports not yet
> > strengthened). You can still see the fallen supports in the valley. They
> > did recently re-deck the portion of the bridge still standing and put in a
> > glass bottom so you can look down, all 301 feet to the valley below. You
> > can still get a good feel for the marvel of this bridge but unfortunately,
> > can no longer cross the entire structure. Years ago, we took a train
> > across the bridge and have a very humorous tale that occurred that day.
> >
> > That is about the only other Civil War related story I can think of (I am
> > not sure if it is technically Civil War related, but if you admire General
> > Kane [sorry, I get confused if I just use his last name, due to the town
> > also being called Kane]), this is a must see site or if those pesky elk
> > refuse to come out.
> >
> > On another treasure related aspect, there is also said to be a stash of
> > gold buried within sight of the bridge left there by a bank robber who
> > never was able to come back and claim it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> > On Behalf Of Tom
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:53 PM
> > To: GDG
> > Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Thanks Andy - I'm jealous - we love your area - and the folks are really
> > nice (they don't hunt & eat tourists - that's a good thing ;-D) Visitor's
> > center is awesome - but the crowds are getting worse each year we go.
> > Whoever thought you could see elk in the wild in Pennsylvania. And you're
> > right - it is the Caledonia Pike. Had no idea of the Civil War related
> > matters in the area, makes it that more enjoyable. Civil War related - the
> > Bucktails were a tough bunch - derived from the lumber industry etc. - if
> > we ever move - PA's the place - Gettysburg,Lancaster, Benezette - a dream
> > land of my hobbies. = (Civil War-Food-Elk).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tom B.
> >
> >
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> Message: 20
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:24:24 -0500
> From: Tom <bunco973 at optonline.net>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
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>
>
> >>> I like saying "Greene, Candy, Kane" <<<<
>
>
>
>
> LOL - That's the catch words I use to remember they all fought in the same
> area. And thanks Andy - Kinzua will be a stop in October for sure
>
> Regards, Tom B.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 21
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:29:52 -0500
> From: George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
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> Marines coined the term "Grunt" in the early 60s (before that conflict Dennis doesn't want us to mention) when just about everyone in the Army was mechanized. That's a fact, Jack!
>
> Is your grandson still on active duty?
>
> Semper Fi,
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Jack Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > I thought you were a Marine?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jack
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Connell" <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> > To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:40 AM
> > Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
> >
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Rookies talk about strategy, professionals talk logistics!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> George
> >> A Grunt
> >>
> >> On Jan 27, 2012, at 9:54, dherko at kc.rr.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Lee could not have drawn the AoP away from their supply base by going North.
> >>>
> >>> The Union had developed a series of permanent and temporary supply depots. I did quite a bit of study on City Point. Montgomery Meigs was the QM General, Ingals was the AoP QM chief. As the AoP moved across Virginia throughout the war, the War Department closed and opened temporary depots - city point was the best example. Permanent depots were just informed by telegraph or other means on how to push supplies and to where they would go.
> >>>
> >>> The greatest example of Union Supply efficiency was the mail for Sherman's Army. Sherman had not informed the war department on the exact timeand place of where he would emerge at the end of his march. His troops received the fisrt batch of mail within the week, I think actually four days but less than seven is good enough for arguement's sake. The Union Supply system was that good.
> >>>
> >>> At Petersburg, if I was a regimental QM, I could request a set of shoes size 16EE. The request would flow up the chain of command (QM side) through the AoP to Ingals office, as the now Chief of QM for the Armies Operating around Richmond (or whatever title he had). His department was operating out of the Epp plantation house overlooking the City Point Warfs. If the clothing warehouses did not have the set of shoes, the request was passed to Meigs HQ in DC, where the request would be sent to the depot for clothing (lets say Boston for instance) if Boston Depot did not have the 16EE, they would contact the manufacturer and several sets of 16EE shoes were made, sent to Boston, forward an intermediate depot if one was assigned for low priority routine deliveries or possibly put on a ship right to City Point if the request was given a higher priority. Remember City Point was, during the seige, the busiest port in the world.
> >>>
> >>> Conferderate Soldiers who for months smelled fresh bread being delivered to Union troops at Petersburg were in awe when they were proceessed through City Point as prisoners.
> >>>
> >>> Again that is Lee not truly understanding what he was up against. His men were supplying themselves for two years on Union good (sadlles, blankets, weapons, clothing, wagons, cannon, anything they could pick up) the supply never stopped. The wagon train that Stuart captured had 250 brand new wagons with brand new bits, straps, harnesses, theat stuff was being crated at record pace.
> >>>
> >>> As Lee was running out of serviceable horses, Meade had more than he could use. Hunt was able to create a secret wagon train filled with ammunition for a big fight. The corperate Union Army, that was prosecuting the war strategically was light years ahead of the CSA. Only Sherman's Army during his Georgia was the only Union Army that ever was completely severed fro the Union supply system.
> >>>
> >>> VR
> >>> Don Herko (US Army Loggie)
> >>>
> >>> --- Tom Barrett <tbarrett21 at cox.net> wrote:
> >>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>
> >>>> From a military standpoint, I think he wanted to draw the AoP far enough so
> >>>> that they were separated from their supply and support bases and far enough
> >>>> that they would be tired, scattered, and not able to concentrate
> >>>> effectively. Drawing them toward Harrisburg was a good plan, but spreading
> >>>> them out would have been even better, so the AoP Corps couldn't quickly
> >>>> support one another.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think he figured that his forces would be more rested and better
> >>>> concentrated than the AoP, and that he'd pick off and defeat the Union units
> >>>> as they came north.
> >>>>
> >>>> As it turned out, Gettysburg wasn't far enough, and the AoP was well
> >>>> organized, well supplied, and was able to concentrate effectively. For
> >>>> whatever reason, Lee chose to attack anyway.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> TB
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ________________________________
> >>>> >
> >>>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>> I tend to favor the notion that Harrisburg was a decoy to draw Union
> >>>> forces out into the open. I absolutely believe that Lee would have sent
> >>>> forces into the city, primarily to destroy railroad infrastructure, damage
> >>>> manufacturing operations, capture supplies, and generally create further
> >>>> panic in the north, but holding the city was never an option. I believe
> >>>> there was a relatively small window of opportunity for the ANV to operate
> >>>> in Pennsylvania.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:13 PM, keith mackenzie wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>>> I've read a couple of posts where the esteemed member insisted that Lee
> >>>> did not intend to hold Harrisburg if he did in fact assault and take it.
> >>>>>>> I don't know if it was more than one poster or only one several times.
> >>>>>>> My
> >>>>>>> question is, does anyone think he would have attempted to hold it? I
> >>>> don't think anyone has put forward that POV, but I might have missed it.
> >>>>>>> thanks
> >>>>>>> K.
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> Message: 22
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:40:58 -0500
> From: George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg"
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> I have it nearly memorized! Coddington, Smoddington; Southall Freeman was masterful! Have you read his George Washington biography? Magnificent (as long as you have six months to spare)!
>
> Semper Fi, Do or Die!
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Jack Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > George, I think you need to review Lee and His Lieutenants.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jack
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Connell" <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> > To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: GDG- "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg"
> >
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > I believe so--and I think he was flat-on-his-back sick that time.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > George
> > 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >
> > On Jan 27, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Andy Mills wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Isn't this the same reason claimed he failed to attack on the North Anna in 1864?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of John Lawrence
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:21 PM
> >> To: GDG
> >> Subject: Re: GDG- "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg"
> >>
> >> I cannot see an army commander not functioning because of health, unless he was comatose.
> >> If he was healthy enough to tell Longstreet to quit his whining, he was healthy enough to command.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Jack
> >>
> >>
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> Message: 23
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:54:02 -0500
> From: Tom <bunco973 at optonline.net>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> >>>>
> Sometimes I
> wonder whether Lee headed
> North, besides the tried and true reasons, to stave off the chance of losing
> some of his command to the West (Vicksburg especially). Commanders don't
> like to lose troops to another command, maybe an ego thing ;-D. Not saying
> Lee's best interests for the Confederacy were not in his heart, but the
> acceleration of his movements after meeting with Davis was (to me) a bit
> suspect. <<<<<<
>
> I had posted the above last week - thought I was one of the few that felt
> this way. Just a theory - but it's almost like "See ya Mr. Davis - we're
> leaving now - I'll be in touch". A few weeks later, Lee advises that he has
> to cut off communications back to Richmond due partially to manpower
> shortages. As an aside - back to Harrisburg - there has to be some strong
> reasons that initially Lee is looking at Harrisburg - Ewell at Carlisle -
> Early/Gordon at Wrightsville - another words, a full Corps north & south of
> Harrisburg (whether to entice the AOP, raid the city, or invest it for a
> short time). I join with the "Lee was decoying the AOP to hasten north" on
> the premise that supposedly Lee felt the AOP wasn't moving fast enough north
> for him (Stuart not communicating same to Lee). Lee was in the land of
> plenty, but subsisting 75-80,000 men would only go so far in PA.
> Logistically, that's a long stretch from PA, back through the Shenandoah to
> VA. I realize that's oversimplifying the matter, but that's how I see it, I
> truly think he would have been better taking another foray into Maryland -
> but I don't wish to go into what if territory.
>
> Regards,
> Tom B.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Mills
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:23 PM
> To: GDG
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> It makes perfect sense though if the real motivation was simply to keep his
> precious ANV together and not have part of it shipped off to Vicksburg. Lee
> couldn't be straight with Davis about this and came up with the crop story
> as a sidebar to his real motivations. When asked why troops shouldn't be
> sent to Vicksburg, Lee couldn't simply state "because I don't want to send
> them." He had to present a valid case for keeping them assigned to his
> army.
>
> Just don't ask me to prove this, but this is my belief of the true reason he
> invaded the North - to keep the ANV intact, the army he had "nurtured and
> created" (yes, I am aware technically the army existed prior to his command,
> but no one in the Confederacy remembers an army pre June 1862).
>
> Thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> On Behalf Of dherko at kc.rr.com
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:00 PM
> To: GDG
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> John,
>
> that is exactly the shortsidedness of Lee's strategy he convinced Davis to
> support.
>
> Crops are planted in the Spring and harvested in the fall. Lee could not
> possibly stay up North for that length of time. He could not have possibly
> protected Virginia's corps for an enitre planitng season.
>
> As for Vicksburg. By late June, Vicksburg was gone. Once Lee convince
> Davis of a course of action, the garrison's fate was sealed. Had Lee won on
> July 3rd (before he really planned to fight Meade) Pemberton had
> surrendered, he was just trying to negotiate a better deal.
>
> Until Grant came East, there was not a Northern General that could lace
> Lee's boots on the tactical battlefield. Lee however, fought for Virginia
> and Vriginia alone. He completely failed to understand the implications of
> losing Vicksburg. He was resistant to send troops to the Carolina coast,
> did not want Longstreet to go to Chickamauga. He was myopic on Strategy, he
> protected Virginia and Virginia was in the fight until the end.
>
> VR
> Don
>
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> Message: 24
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:08:08 -0500
> From: George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> It's a fact that Lee spent two days in Richmond (I think it was two; I'm on a trip and away from my books) with Davis going over options. It's also a fact that Davis and his entire cabinet (with one vote against--that being Reagan, the postmaster general and a pretty smart guy) voted in favor of the move into Pennsylvania. These were not shy men, nor men of limited intelligence, but rather men of considerable experience, some of whom had vested interests in the West. I don't think Lee pulled a fast one.
>
> When you consider the options carefully, sending troops west was not a good idea. I have explained why before and would be happy to do so again after this trip. Sending Lee and troops that way would have been a lot better, but then who would replace Lee. I think the fundamental problem at that point in the war was that the Confederacy lacked sufficient competent top-level commanders. This was less a troop-strength problem than a find-a-good-aggressive-commander problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:33 PM, John Grim wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Esteemed Members
> >
> > Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> > Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to take
> > the war away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and
> > that troops might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be
> > political advantage to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful
> > east of Harrisburg with the river at his back and having to contend with
> > Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and its forts as well as the various
> > units of the Union army gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not
> > regulars but they can picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally
> > get in the way. Lee's communications and supply lines would be extended
> > further and further and he would be further away from the protection of the
> > mountains and their passes. As it was it took him 10 days to get back to
> > Virginia from Gettysburg. He may have been able to live off the land near
> > Harrisburg but where would his munitions and replacements come from?? How
> > long could he stay away from Richmond with only Corse and Jenkins covering
> > that area? I just don't see it but I am willing to consider other
> > opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for broke. He had limited goals
> > and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> > probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably would
> > not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 25
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:10:05 -0500
> From: George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> Jack,
>
> You've slipped over the rhetorical edge again! I have a toll-free counseling number I can give you.
>
> Praying for your recovery,
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 2:12 PM, John Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Lee was a Lee of Virginia.
> > Hi people had been of Virginia be fire their was a United States. They hailed from a place so remote it was once bombaeded by pirates.
> > To the Lees, Virginia WAS their country.
> > Lee entered service in the Confederacy not out of treason nor did he hold allegiance to the Confederacy. He e was a Lee OF Virginia. Lee entered the service of the Confederacy to serve Virginia only.
> > So when Lee took his forces north, he did it only to spare Virginia. He cared not if the Confederacy died.
> > Virginia must be spared.
> > Regards,
> > Jack
> >
> > dherko at kc.rr.com wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> John,
> >>
> >> that is exactly the shortsidedness of Lee's strategy he convinced Davis to support.
> >>
> >> Crops are planted in the Spring and harvested in the fall. Lee could not possibly stay up North for that length of time. He could not have possibly protected Virginia's corps for an enitre planitng season.
> >>
> >> As for Vicksburg. By late June, Vicksburg was gone. Once Lee convince Davis of a course of action, the garrison's fate was sealed. Had Lee won on July 3rd (before he really planned to fight Meade) Pemberton had surrendered, he was just trying to negotiate a better deal.
> >>
> >> Until Grant came East, there was not a Northern General that could lace Lee's boots on the tactical battlefield. Lee however, fought for Virginia and Vriginia alone. He completely failed to understand the implications of losing Vicksburg. He was resistant to send troops to the Carolina coast, did not want Longstreet to go to Chickamauga. He was myopic on Strategy, he protected Virginia and Virginia was in the fight until the end.
> >>
> >> VR
> >> Don
> >>
> >> ---- John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Esteemed Members
> >>>
> >>> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> >>> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to take
> >>> the war away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and
> >>> that troops might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be
> >>> political advantage to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful
> >>> east of Harrisburg with the river at his back and having to contend with
> >>> Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and its forts as well as the various
> >>> units of the Union army gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not
> >>> regulars but they can picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally
> >>> get in the way. Lee's communications and supply lines would be extended
> >>> further and further and he would be further away from the protection of the
> >>> mountains and their passes. As it was it took him 10 days to get back to
> >>> Virginia from Gettysburg. He may have been able to live off the land near
> >>> Harrisburg but where would his munitions and replacements come from?? How
> >>> long could he stay away from Richmond with only Corse and Jenkins covering
> >>> that area? I just don't see it but I am willing to consider other
> >>> opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for broke. He had limited goals
> >>> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> >>> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably would
> >>> not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 26
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:12:59 -0500
> From: George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
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> Green was there too. You can Green Candy Kane.
>
> Regards,
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Jack Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > candy kane was an actress in the 70's.
> > regards,
> > jack
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Glorioso" <glory at zbzoom.net>
> > To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
> >
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> You are right
> >> Organized bucktails
> >> Staunch abolitionist
> >> He was also friends with Brigham Young
> >> Kane County Utah also named after him
> >> He has a statue in Utah's Capitol building
> >> Best part of Kane's history is that he fought alongside Candy on Culps Hill
> >> Geary had Candy-Kane lost on Baltimore pike and they missed July 2 action
> >> I like saying Candy-Kane
> >> ;-)
> >> Dave
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Jan 27, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Andy Mills <amills at jplcreative.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Another quasi related Civil War story of the area, although it is about 40 miles from Benezette, is a visit to Kinzua Bridge ( http://www.smethporthistory.org/kinzuaviaduct/index.htm ), which was originally built by General Thomas Kane (whom has a town named after him a few miles from there). His home is also a bed and breakfast, called Kane Manor, http://kanemanor.com/ in the town of Kane, which is quite an impressive home. I believe he was the person responsible for organizing the original Bucktails, but please correct me if mistaken.
> >>>
> >>> If you have extra time, I would suggest a visit there. Although about 1/2 the bridge was destroyed in a tornado in 2003 (and as luck would have it, the state was in the process of stabilizing the bridge just as the tornado hit the very center of it, bringing down the couple of supports not yet strengthened). You can still see the fallen supports in the valley. They did recently re-deck the portion of the bridge still standing and put in a glass bottom so you can look down, all 301 feet to the valley below. You can still get a good feel for the marvel of this bridge but unfortunately, can no longer cross the entire structure. Years ago, we took a train across the bridge and have a very humorous tale that occurred that day.
> >>>
> >>> That is about the only other Civil War related story I can think of (I am not sure if it is technically Civil War related, but if you admire General Kane [sorry, I get confused if I just use his last name, due to the town also being called Kane]), this is a must see site or if those pesky elk refuse to come out.
> >>>
> >>> On another treasure related aspect, there is also said to be a stash of gold buried within sight of the bridge left there by a bank robber who never was able to come back and claim it.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of Tom
> >>> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:53 PM
> >>> To: GDG
> >>> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
> >>>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Thanks Andy - I'm jealous - we love your area - and the folks are really nice (they don't hunt & eat tourists - that's a good thing ;-D) Visitor's center is awesome - but the crowds are getting worse each year we go.
> >>> Whoever thought you could see elk in the wild in Pennsylvania. And you're right - it is the Caledonia Pike. Had no idea of the Civil War related matters in the area, makes it that more enjoyable. Civil War related - the Bucktails were a tough bunch - derived from the lumber industry etc. - if we ever move - PA's the place - Gettysburg,Lancaster, Benezette - a dream land of my hobbies. = (Civil War-Food-Elk).
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Tom B.
> >>>
> >>>
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> Message: 27
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:24:21 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> Good post Andy-
>
> Was Ft Couch prepared just for the '63 invasion or had it been there
> before? How extensive was it? Was it upgraded with more cannon after the
> invasion? I've heard of it but know nothing about it. Were there covering
> batteries to guard it flanks?
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2012 12:48:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> amills at jplcreative.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> I don't think Lee ever planned or envisioned reaching so far as Baltimore
> or Philadelphia. I think he realized Harrisburg was about as far as he
> could go. He wasn't going to get there with the AOP in his rear and even if
> he conducted a Cannae type battle, he is still forced to retreat back to
> Virginia for the inability to continue an advance (or even holding the ground
> gained).
>
> I think we see this as part of the reason for Pickett's Charge. He didn't
> have the capabilities to disengage and fight another battle as his army
> was almost out of war material to continue. A battle that occurs even
> further north exacerbates this need and regardless of its outcome, Lee is still
> forced to fall back.
>
> However: a direct attack on Harrisburg also had to contend with Fort
> Couch (I think called Hummel's Heights at the time [correct me if wrong], which
> is a great little site with some earthworks still visible if you ever get
> a chance to visit). I am not sure how well manned it would be, but a
> crossing can't occur until this fort is taken, at least in my estimation as it
> had a commanding view of any river crossing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> On Behalf Of John Grim
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:33 PM
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Esteemed Members
>
> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to take the war
> away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and that troops
> might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be political advantage
> to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful east of Harrisburg
> with the river at his back and having to contend with Philadelphia, Baltimore,
> Washington and its forts as well as the various units of the Union army
> gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not regulars but they can
> picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally get in the way. Lee's
> communications and supply lines would be extended further and further and he
> would be further away from the protection of the mountains and their passes.
> As it was it took him 10 days to get back to Virginia from Gettysburg.
> He may have been able to live off the land near Harrisburg but where would
> his munitions and
> replacements come from?? How long could he stay away from Richmond with
> only Corse and Jenkins covering that area? I just don't see it but I am
> willing to consider other opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for broke.
> He had limited goals
> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably
> would not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 28
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:19:35 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- 75th Reunion in Gettysburg in 1938
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> You may also want to get Ken Burns's last chapter of his series. He
> spends some significant time going into the post-war experience and heritage.
> That film strip of the old vets shaking hands over the wall and making the
> Rebel Yell is one excerpt.
>
> Also, go into Grand Army of the Republic which was the Union social
> fraternity after the war. Should be a lot of interesting vignettes there.
>
> Also, Sons of Union Volunteers and Sons of Confederate Volunteers. They
> may have something to offer.
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2012 11:38:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> denlaw at gojade.org writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
> >
> >What do I need to know about this reunion, and what questions should I ask
> >this gentleman (who I guess is in his 80's or 90's)?
> Hi,
>
> Hopefully Chris Army will let his wife Alyce know of this request in
> time for you to make contact with her.
>
> She is an authority on this.
>
> Dennis
>
>
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> Message: 29
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:31:07 -0500
> From: "Terry Brasko" <TerryBrasko at mindspring.com>
> To: "'GDG'" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- 75th Reunion in Gettysburg in 1938
> Message-ID: <002f01ccdd43$5cd1ea70$1675bf50$@com>
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>
>
> >Also, Sons of Union Volunteers and Sons of Confederate Volunteers. They
> may have something to offer.
>
> >A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> >Peter
>
> Do you mean Sons of Confederate Veterans??
>
> Terry Brasko
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 30
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:33:43 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: GDG- An Interesting Experience
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> Today I had reason to go to DMV in Alexandria and took the Yellow line
> subway which at the Potomac rises up out of the tunnel, goes over a bridge,
> and then goes back underground before stopping at the Pentagon. I was lost
> in thought when I realized that I was looking at the grave marker over a
> mile away on the hill at Arlington of John Gibbon and those of others. No
> leaves. Pretty cool. Usually you can't see them from the subway. As
> Americans we are lucky to have this capital city.
>
> (John Grim, I couldn't stay down there or I would have called you.)
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 31
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:37:51 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
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>
> Yes- didn't she play a prostitute on Magnum P.I.?
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2012 3:07:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> candy kane was an actress in the 70's.
> regards,
> jack
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Glorioso" <glory at zbzoom.net>
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:03 PM
> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
>
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > You are right
> > Organized bucktails
> > Staunch abolitionist
> > He was also friends with Brigham Young
> > Kane County Utah also named after him
> > He has a statue in Utah's Capitol building
> > Best part of Kane's history is that he fought alongside Candy on Culps
> > Hill
> > Geary had Candy-Kane lost on Baltimore pike and they missed July 2 action
> > I like saying Candy-Kane
> > ;-)
> > Dave
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jan 27, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Andy Mills <amills at jplcreative.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Another quasi related Civil War story of the area, although it is about
> >> 40 miles from Benezette, is a visit to Kinzua Bridge (
> >> http://www.smethporthistory.org/kinzuaviaduct/index.htm ), which was
> >> originally built by General Thomas Kane (whom has a town named after
> him
> >> a few miles from there). His home is also a bed and breakfast, called
> >> Kane Manor, http://kanemanor.com/ in the town of Kane, which is quite
> an
> >> impressive home. I believe he was the person responsible for
> organizing
> >> the original Bucktails, but please correct me if mistaken.
> >>
> >> If you have extra time, I would suggest a visit there. Although about
> >> 1/2 the bridge was destroyed in a tornado in 2003 (and as luck would
> have
> >> it, the state was in the process of stabilizing the bridge just as the
> >> tornado hit the very center of it, bringing down the couple of supports
> >> not yet strengthened). You can still see the fallen supports in the
> >> valley. They did recently re-deck the portion of the bridge still
> >> standing and put in a glass bottom so you can look down, all 301 feet
> to
> >> the valley below. You can still get a good feel for the marvel of this
>
> >> bridge but unfortunately, can no longer cross the entire structure.
> >> Years ago, we took a train across the bridge and have a very humorous
> >> tale that occurred that day.
> >>
> >> That is about the only other Civil War related story I can think of (I
> am
> >> not sure if it is technically Civil War related, but if you admire
> >> General Kane [sorry, I get confused if I just use his last name, due to
> >> the town also being called Kane]), this is a must see site or if those
> >> pesky elk refuse to come out.
> >>
> >> On another treasure related aspect, there is also said to be a stash of
> >> gold buried within sight of the bridge left there by a bank robber who
> >> never was able to come back and claim it.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com
> >> [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of Tom
> >> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:53 PM
> >> To: GDG
> >> Subject: Re: GDG- William Addleman of the Bucktails
> >>
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Thanks Andy - I'm jealous - we love your area - and the folks are
> >> really nice (they don't hunt & eat tourists - that's a good thing ;-D)
> >> Visitor's center is awesome - but the crowds are getting worse each
> year
> >> we go.
> >> Whoever thought you could see elk in the wild in Pennsylvania. And
> you're
> >> right - it is the Caledonia Pike. Had no idea of the Civil War related
> >> matters in the area, makes it that more enjoyable. Civil War related -
> >> the Bucktails were a tough bunch - derived from the lumber industry
> >> etc. - if we ever move - PA's the place - Gettysburg,Lancaster,
> >> Benezette - a dream land of my hobbies. = (Civil War-Food-Elk).
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Tom B.
> >>
> >>
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> Message: 32
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:47:47 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- 75th Reunion in Gettysburg in 1938
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> I think you are right. Oops...
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2012 5:31:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> TerryBrasko at mindspring.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
> >Also, Sons of Union Volunteers and Sons of Confederate Volunteers. They
> may have something to offer.
>
> >A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> >Peter
>
> Do you mean Sons of Confederate Veterans??
>
> Terry Brasko
>
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> Message: 33
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:42:20 -0500
> From: John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- An Interesting Experience
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> Peter
>
> Turned out to be a nice day after noon but so windy. We've been lucky
> weatherwise this winter
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Today I had reason to go to DMV in Alexandria and took the Yellow line
> > subway which at the Potomac rises up out of the tunnel, goes over a
> > bridge,
> > and then goes back underground before stopping at the Pentagon. I was
> > lost
> > in thought when I realized that I was looking at the grave marker over a
> > mile away on the hill at Arlington of John Gibbon and those of others. No
> > leaves. Pretty cool. Usually you can't see them from the subway. As
> > Americans we are lucky to have this capital city.
> >
> > (John Grim, I couldn't stay down there or I would have called you.)
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> > ----------------
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> Message: 34
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:43:41 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- An Interesting Experience
> Message-ID: <27e06.3127aa6b.3c5490ad at aol.com>
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>
> Looking forward to seeing you on the 12th John. This will be cool.
>
> And chili!
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:42:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Peter
>
> Turned out to be a nice day after noon but so windy. We've been lucky
> weatherwise this winter
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Today I had reason to go to DMV in Alexandria and took the Yellow line
> > subway which at the Potomac rises up out of the tunnel, goes over a
> > bridge,
> > and then goes back underground before stopping at the Pentagon. I was
> > lost
> > in thought when I realized that I was looking at the grave marker over a
> > mile away on the hill at Arlington of John Gibbon and those of others.
> No
> > leaves. Pretty cool. Usually you can't see them from the subway. As
> > Americans we are lucky to have this capital city.
> >
> > (John Grim, I couldn't stay down there or I would have called you.)
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> > ----------------
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> Message: 35
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:47:40 -0500
> From: John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- An Interesting Experience
> Message-ID:
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> Peter
>
> Who's your pick for the Super Bowl?? I like the Giants and the pts.
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:43 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Looking forward to seeing you on the 12th John. This will be cool.
> >
> > And chili!
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:42:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Peter
> >
> > Turned out to be a nice day after noon but so windy. We've been lucky
> > weatherwise this winter
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Today I had reason to go to DMV in Alexandria and took the Yellow line
> > > subway which at the Potomac rises up out of the tunnel, goes over a
> > > bridge,
> > > and then goes back underground before stopping at the Pentagon. I was
> > > lost
> > > in thought when I realized that I was looking at the grave marker over
> > a
> > > mile away on the hill at Arlington of John Gibbon and those of others.
> > No
> > > leaves. Pretty cool. Usually you can't see them from the subway. As
> > > Americans we are lucky to have this capital city.
> > >
> > > (John Grim, I couldn't stay down there or I would have called you.)
> > >
> > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > Peter
> > > ----------------
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> Message: 36
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:49:00 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- An Interesting Experience
> Message-ID: <28065.48d3ca20.3c5491eb at aol.com>
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>
> I am not too much of a sports dude. haven't been following it. Are you
> mad at me?
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:48:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Peter
>
> Who's your pick for the Super Bowl?? I like the Giants and the pts.
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:43 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Looking forward to seeing you on the 12th John. This will be cool.
> >
> > And chili!
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:42:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Peter
> >
> > Turned out to be a nice day after noon but so windy. We've been lucky
> > weatherwise this winter
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Today I had reason to go to DMV in Alexandria and took the Yellow
> line
> > > subway which at the Potomac rises up out of the tunnel, goes over a
> > > bridge,
> > > and then goes back underground before stopping at the Pentagon. I
> was
> > > lost
> > > in thought when I realized that I was looking at the grave marker
> over
> > a
> > > mile away on the hill at Arlington of John Gibbon and those of others.
> > No
> > > leaves. Pretty cool. Usually you can't see them from the subway.
> As
> > > Americans we are lucky to have this capital city.
> > >
> > > (John Grim, I couldn't stay down there or I would have called you.)
> > >
> > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > Peter
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> Message: 37
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:00:00 -0500
> From: John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- An Interesting Experience
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> Peter
>
> Not at all. I follow ALL the posts. Sometimes if I'm off I can keep up.
> Sometimes I have to let them bunch up if I'm busy. Had 5 weeks off and
> Monday I went back to work...been busy driving Capital 0ne interviewees
> from DCA & IAD to Tysons and then to Cap. 0ne and the various hotels in
> Tysons. Been getting home just about dinner time. Been starting with the
> CFO in Fairfax Station usually around 6:00 a.m. which necessitates getting
> up about 5:00 a.m. I don't see very well at night (driving) so I have to
> be the daylight guy.
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:49 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > I am not too much of a sports dude. haven't been following it. Are you
> > mad at me?
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:48:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Peter
> >
> > Who's your pick for the Super Bowl?? I like the Giants and the pts.
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:43 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Looking forward to seeing you on the 12th John. This will be cool.
> > >
> > > And chili!
> > >
> > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:42:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> > >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > Turned out to be a nice day after noon but so windy. We've been lucky
> > > weatherwise this winter
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > Today I had reason to go to DMV in Alexandria and took the Yellow
> > line
> > > > subway which at the Potomac rises up out of the tunnel, goes over a
> > > > bridge,
> > > > and then goes back underground before stopping at the Pentagon. I
> > was
> > > > lost
> > > > in thought when I realized that I was looking at the grave marker
> > over
> > > a
> > > > mile away on the hill at Arlington of John Gibbon and those of
> > others.
> > > No
> > > > leaves. Pretty cool. Usually you can't see them from the subway.
> > As
> > > > Americans we are lucky to have this capital city.
> > > >
> > > > (John Grim, I couldn't stay down there or I would have called you.)
> > > >
> > > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > > Peter
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> Message: 38
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:02:31 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- An Interesting Experience
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> It's really fun growing old, isn't it?
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2012 7:00:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Peter
>
> Not at all. I follow ALL the posts. Sometimes if I'm off I can keep up.
> Sometimes I have to let them bunch up if I'm busy. Had 5 weeks off and
> Monday I went back to work...been busy driving Capital 0ne interviewees
> from DCA & IAD to Tysons and then to Cap. 0ne and the various hotels in
> Tysons. Been getting home just about dinner time. Been starting with the
> CFO in Fairfax Station usually around 6:00 a.m. which necessitates getting
> up about 5:00 a.m. I don't see very well at night (driving) so I have to
> be the daylight guy.
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:49 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > I am not too much of a sports dude. haven't been following it. Are you
> > mad at me?
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:48:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Peter
> >
> > Who's your pick for the Super Bowl?? I like the Giants and the pts.
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:43 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Looking forward to seeing you on the 12th John. This will be cool.
> > >
> > > And chili!
> > >
> > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:42:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> > >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > Turned out to be a nice day after noon but so windy. We've been
> lucky
> > > weatherwise this winter
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > Today I had reason to go to DMV in Alexandria and took the Yellow
> > line
> > > > subway which at the Potomac rises up out of the tunnel, goes over
> a
> > > > bridge,
> > > > and then goes back underground before stopping at the Pentagon. I
> > was
> > > > lost
> > > > in thought when I realized that I was looking at the grave marker
> > over
> > > a
> > > > mile away on the hill at Arlington of John Gibbon and those of
> > others.
> > > No
> > > > leaves. Pretty cool. Usually you can't see them from the
> subway.
> > As
> > > > Americans we are lucky to have this capital city.
> > > >
> > > > (John Grim, I couldn't stay down there or I would have called
> you.)
> > > >
> > > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > > Peter
> > > > ----------------
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> Message: 39
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:10:04 -0500
> From: John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- An Interesting Experience
> Message-ID:
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> It's not good. I'm a diabetic last 5 years but only a type 2 and I've done
> very well on medication. Thank god for medicare...lol. I've only belonged
> to the GDG for a bit over a year. I've met a few of the people at last
> years Muster, Nancy, George, Dean, J.D. and probably others whose names I
> see but aren't that familiar with. I'm constantly absorbing CW info. I
> tend to be very careful what I blog about knowing that many of these people
> have a lot more specific knowledge than I have. You can say 10 things
> right but if you say one thing you can't back up...you're going to hear
> about it. What do you think?
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:02 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > It's really fun growing old, isn't it?
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/27/2012 7:00:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Peter
> >
> > Not at all. I follow ALL the posts. Sometimes if I'm off I can keep up.
> > Sometimes I have to let them bunch up if I'm busy. Had 5 weeks off and
> > Monday I went back to work...been busy driving Capital 0ne interviewees
> > from DCA & IAD to Tysons and then to Cap. 0ne and the various hotels in
> > Tysons. Been getting home just about dinner time. Been starting with the
> > CFO in Fairfax Station usually around 6:00 a.m. which necessitates getting
> > up about 5:00 a.m. I don't see very well at night (driving) so I have to
> > be the daylight guy.
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:49 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > I am not too much of a sports dude. haven't been following it. Are
> > you
> > > mad at me?
> > >
> > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:48:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> > >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > Who's your pick for the Super Bowl?? I like the Giants and the pts.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:43 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > Looking forward to seeing you on the 12th John. This will be cool.
> > > >
> > > > And chili!
> > > >
> > > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:42:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> > > >
> > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > Turned out to be a nice day after noon but so windy. We've been
> > lucky
> > > > weatherwise this winter
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > > Today I had reason to go to DMV in Alexandria and took the Yellow
> > > line
> > > > > subway which at the Potomac rises up out of the tunnel, goes over
> > a
> > > > > bridge,
> > > > > and then goes back underground before stopping at the Pentagon.
> > I
> > > was
> > > > > lost
> > > > > in thought when I realized that I was looking at the grave marker
> > > over
> > > > a
> > > > > mile away on the hill at Arlington of John Gibbon and those of
> > > others.
> > > > No
> > > > > leaves. Pretty cool. Usually you can't see them from the
> > subway.
> > > As
> > > > > Americans we are lucky to have this capital city.
> > > > >
> > > > > (John Grim, I couldn't stay down there or I would have called
> > you.)
> > > > >
> > > > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > > > Peter
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> Message: 40
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:25:47 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- An Interesting Experience
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> Haha.
>
> I am looking for partime chauffer work for the winter and yest had to
> renew my D.O.T. health card to drive buses. At the med check the doc was
> amazed. I've been driving those stupid pedicabs, which weigh empty 200-300 lbs,
> since last winter. Then you put adults in a ride uphill it is quite an
> experience. Turns out my heart rate was 68(!) and my BP is wonderful. Did I
> send you pics?
>
> Not bad for a 60 yr old guy with a heart condition. ;-{) !!!!
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2012 7:10:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> It's not good. I'm a diabetic last 5 years but only a type 2 and I've done
> very well on medication. Thank god for medicare...lol. I've only belonged
> to the GDG for a bit over a year. I've met a few of the people at last
> years Muster, Nancy, George, Dean, J.D. and probably others whose names I
> see but aren't that familiar with. I'm constantly absorbing CW info. I
> tend to be very careful what I blog about knowing that many of these people
> have a lot more specific knowledge than I have. You can say 10 things
> right but if you say one thing you can't back up...you're going to hear
> about it. What do you think?
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:02 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > It's really fun growing old, isn't it?
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/27/2012 7:00:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Peter
> >
> > Not at all. I follow ALL the posts. Sometimes if I'm off I can keep
> up.
> > Sometimes I have to let them bunch up if I'm busy. Had 5 weeks off
> and
> > Monday I went back to work...been busy driving Capital 0ne interviewees
> > from DCA & IAD to Tysons and then to Cap. 0ne and the various hotels in
> > Tysons. Been getting home just about dinner time. Been starting with
> the
> > CFO in Fairfax Station usually around 6:00 a.m. which necessitates
> getting
> > up about 5:00 a.m. I don't see very well at night (driving) so I have
> to
> > be the daylight guy.
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:49 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > I am not too much of a sports dude. haven't been following it. Are
> > you
> > > mad at me?
> > >
> > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:48:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> > >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > Who's your pick for the Super Bowl?? I like the Giants and the pts.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:43 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > Looking forward to seeing you on the 12th John. This will be
> cool.
> > > >
> > > > And chili!
> > > >
> > > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:42:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> > > >
> > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > Turned out to be a nice day after noon but so windy. We've been
> > lucky
> > > > weatherwise this winter
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > > Today I had reason to go to DMV in Alexandria and took the
> Yellow
> > > line
> > > > > subway which at the Potomac rises up out of the tunnel, goes
> over
> > a
> > > > > bridge,
> > > > > and then goes back underground before stopping at the Pentagon.
> > I
> > > was
> > > > > lost
> > > > > in thought when I realized that I was looking at the grave marker
> > > over
> > > > a
> > > > > mile away on the hill at Arlington of John Gibbon and those of
> > > others.
> > > > No
> > > > > leaves. Pretty cool. Usually you can't see them from the
> > subway.
> > > As
> > > > > Americans we are lucky to have this capital city.
> > > > >
> > > > > (John Grim, I couldn't stay down there or I would have called
> > you.)
> > > > >
> > > > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > > > Peter
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> Message: 41
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:30:14 -0500
> From: John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- An Interesting Experience
> Message-ID:
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> Peter
>
> I wouldn't even attempt to peddle a pedicab although I was a really good
> athlete for many years. I played baseball, football and tennis in high
> school and went to U. of Florida on a tennis scholarship. I'm from Ft.
> Lauderdale and Chris Everts dad (Jimmy) was also my coach. Time has taken
> its toll on eyes and legs but I'm still in decent shape.
>
> 2012/1/27 <CWMHTours at aol.com>
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Haha.
> >
> > I am looking for partime chauffer work for the winter and yest had to
> > renew my D.O.T. health card to drive buses. At the med check the doc was
> > amazed. I've been driving those stupid pedicabs, which weigh empty
> > 200-300 lbs,
> > since last winter. Then you put adults in a ride uphill it is quite an
> > experience. Turns out my heart rate was 68(!) and my BP is wonderful.
> > Did I
> > send you pics?
> >
> > Not bad for a 60 yr old guy with a heart condition. ;-{) !!!!
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/27/2012 7:10:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > It's not good. I'm a diabetic last 5 years but only a type 2 and I've
> > done
> > very well on medication. Thank god for medicare...lol. I've only
> > belonged
> > to the GDG for a bit over a year. I've met a few of the people at last
> > years Muster, Nancy, George, Dean, J.D. and probably others whose names I
> > see but aren't that familiar with. I'm constantly absorbing CW info. I
> > tend to be very careful what I blog about knowing that many of these
> > people
> > have a lot more specific knowledge than I have. You can say 10 things
> > right but if you say one thing you can't back up...you're going to hear
> > about it. What do you think?
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:02 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > It's really fun growing old, isn't it?
> > >
> > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 1/27/2012 7:00:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> > >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > Not at all. I follow ALL the posts. Sometimes if I'm off I can keep
> > up.
> > > Sometimes I have to let them bunch up if I'm busy. Had 5 weeks off
> > and
> > > Monday I went back to work...been busy driving Capital 0ne interviewees
> > > from DCA & IAD to Tysons and then to Cap. 0ne and the various hotels in
> > > Tysons. Been getting home just about dinner time. Been starting with
> > the
> > > CFO in Fairfax Station usually around 6:00 a.m. which necessitates
> > getting
> > > up about 5:00 a.m. I don't see very well at night (driving) so I have
> > to
> > > be the daylight guy.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:49 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > I am not too much of a sports dude. haven't been following it. Are
> > > you
> > > > mad at me?
> > > >
> > > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:48:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> > > >
> > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > Who's your pick for the Super Bowl?? I like the Giants and the pts.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:43 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > > Looking forward to seeing you on the 12th John. This will be
> > cool.
> > > > >
> > > > > And chili!
> > > > >
> > > > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > > > Peter
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > In a message dated 1/27/2012 6:42:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > > > jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> > > > >
> > > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > > Peter
> > > > >
> > > > > Turned out to be a nice day after noon but so windy. We've been
> > > lucky
> > > > > weatherwise this winter
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > > > > Today I had reason to go to DMV in Alexandria and took the
> > Yellow
> > > > line
> > > > > > subway which at the Potomac rises up out of the tunnel, goes
> > over
> > > a
> > > > > > bridge,
> > > > > > and then goes back underground before stopping at the Pentagon.
> > > I
> > > > was
> > > > > > lost
> > > > > > in thought when I realized that I was looking at the grave
> > marker
> > > > over
> > > > > a
> > > > > > mile away on the hill at Arlington of John Gibbon and those of
> > > > others.
> > > > > No
> > > > > > leaves. Pretty cool. Usually you can't see them from the
> > > subway.
> > > > As
> > > > > > Americans we are lucky to have this capital city.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > (John Grim, I couldn't stay down there or I would have
> > called
> > > you.)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > > > > Peter
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> Message: 42
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:00:05 -0600
> From: "Jack Lawrence" <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> Message-ID: <3AE74312B12943D2A65EB4561D82A008 at jackPC>
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>
> Ft. Couch was erected for the emergency.
>
> IIRC, it was part of Halleck,s plan to raise a national militia and man this
> and other defenses.
> It was built by free blacks an manned by whatecer was at hand.
> It was supposed to simply cover the approaches to anotherr fort on the
> river-name escapes me.
> Couch kept the main body across the river and I am no sure a crossing v
>
> I am doing this by memory, but the civilian population was just not
> concerned enough to actually join this militia and defe n harrisburg. Most
> reinforcements came from a new york militia that was not all that effective.
>
> Halleck was unwilling to release federal troops, even Pennsylvania units,
> and pretty much left the defenses up to the Governor.
>
> He did authorize the raising of emergency colored units for the emergency.
> One unit was raised and were put to work defending the Wrightsville bridge.
> This is the only colored unit that was involved in the Campaign.
>
> The colored troops were put together with some white volunteers and put to
> worg digging gun pits.
> The white guys apparently resented being relegated to do colored wpork, and
> just left.
> The pits were abandoned after the bridge was burned.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jack
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <CWMHTours at aol.com>
> To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:24 PM
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
>
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Good post Andy-
> >
> > Was Ft Couch prepared just for the '63 invasion or had it been there
> > before? How extensive was it? Was it upgraded with more cannon after
> > the
> > invasion? I've heard of it but know nothing about it. Were there
> > covering
> > batteries to guard it flanks?
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/27/2012 12:48:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > amills at jplcreative.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > I don't think Lee ever planned or envisioned reaching so far as Baltimore
> > or Philadelphia. I think he realized Harrisburg was about as far as he
> > could go. He wasn't going to get there with the AOP in his rear and even
> > if
> > he conducted a Cannae type battle, he is still forced to retreat back to
> > Virginia for the inability to continue an advance (or even holding the
> > ground
> > gained).
> >
> > I think we see this as part of the reason for Pickett's Charge. He
> > didn't
> > have the capabilities to disengage and fight another battle as his army
> > was almost out of war material to continue. A battle that occurs even
> > further north exacerbates this need and regardless of its outcome, Lee is
> > still
> > forced to fall back.
> >
> > However: a direct attack on Harrisburg also had to contend with Fort
> > Couch (I think called Hummel's Heights at the time [correct me if wrong],
> > which
> > is a great little site with some earthworks still visible if you ever get
> > a chance to visit). I am not sure how well manned it would be, but a
> > crossing can't occur until this fort is taken, at least in my estimation
> > as it
> > had a commanding view of any river crossing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com
> > [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> > On Behalf Of John Grim
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:33 PM
> > To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> > Subject: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Esteemed Members
> >
> > Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> > Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to take
> > the war
> > away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and that
> > troops
> > might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be political
> > advantage
> > to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful east of Harrisburg
> > with the river at his back and having to contend with Philadelphia,
> > Baltimore,
> > Washington and its forts as well as the various units of the Union army
> > gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not regulars but they can
> > picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally get in the way.
> > Lee's
> > communications and supply lines would be extended further and further and
> > he
> > would be further away from the protection of the mountains and their
> > passes.
> > As it was it took him 10 days to get back to Virginia from Gettysburg.
> > He may have been able to live off the land near Harrisburg but where
> > would
> > his munitions and
> > replacements come from?? How long could he stay away from Richmond with
> > only Corse and Jenkins covering that area? I just don't see it but I am
> > willing to consider other opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for
> > broke.
> > He had limited goals
> > and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> > probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably
> > would not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 43
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:04:49 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> Message-ID: <29f39.65e9bd05.3c54a3b1 at aol.com>
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>
> THNX Jack-
>
> Are the pits extant?
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2012 8:00:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Ft. Couch was erected for the emergency.
>
> IIRC, it was part of Halleck,s plan to raise a national militia and man
> this
> and other defenses.
> It was built by free blacks an manned by whatecer was at hand.
> It was supposed to simply cover the approaches to anotherr fort on the
> river-name escapes me.
> Couch kept the main body across the river and I am no sure a crossing v
>
> I am doing this by memory, but the civilian population was just not
> concerned enough to actually join this militia and defe n harrisburg. Most
> reinforcements came from a new york militia that was not all that
> effective.
>
> Halleck was unwilling to release federal troops, even Pennsylvania units,
> and pretty much left the defenses up to the Governor.
>
> He did authorize the raising of emergency colored units for the emergency.
> One unit was raised and were put to work defending the Wrightsville
> bridge.
> This is the only colored unit that was involved in the Campaign.
>
> The colored troops were put together with some white volunteers and put to
> worg digging gun pits.
> The white guys apparently resented being relegated to do colored wpork,
> and
> just left.
> The pits were abandoned after the bridge was burned.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jack
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <CWMHTours at aol.com>
> To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:24 PM
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
>
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Good post Andy-
> >
> > Was Ft Couch prepared just for the '63 invasion or had it been there
> > before? How extensive was it? Was it upgraded with more cannon after
> > the
> > invasion? I've heard of it but know nothing about it. Were there
> > covering
> > batteries to guard it flanks?
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/27/2012 12:48:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > amills at jplcreative.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > I don't think Lee ever planned or envisioned reaching so far as
> Baltimore
> > or Philadelphia. I think he realized Harrisburg was about as far as he
> > could go. He wasn't going to get there with the AOP in his rear and
> even
> > if
> > he conducted a Cannae type battle, he is still forced to retreat back to
> > Virginia for the inability to continue an advance (or even holding the
> > ground
> > gained).
> >
> > I think we see this as part of the reason for Pickett's Charge. He
> > didn't
> > have the capabilities to disengage and fight another battle as his army
> > was almost out of war material to continue. A battle that occurs even
> > further north exacerbates this need and regardless of its outcome, Lee
> is
> > still
> > forced to fall back.
> >
> > However: a direct attack on Harrisburg also had to contend with Fort
> > Couch (I think called Hummel's Heights at the time [correct me if
> wrong],
> > which
> > is a great little site with some earthworks still visible if you ever
> get
> > a chance to visit). I am not sure how well manned it would be, but a
> > crossing can't occur until this fort is taken, at least in my
> estimation
> > as it
> > had a commanding view of any river crossing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com
> > [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> > On Behalf Of John Grim
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:33 PM
> > To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> > Subject: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Esteemed Members
> >
> > Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> > Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to
> take
> > the war
> > away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and that
> > troops
> > might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be political
> > advantage
> > to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful east of Harrisburg
> > with the river at his back and having to contend with Philadelphia,
> > Baltimore,
> > Washington and its forts as well as the various units of the Union army
> > gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not regulars but they can
> > picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally get in the way.
> > Lee's
> > communications and supply lines would be extended further and further
> and
> > he
> > would be further away from the protection of the mountains and their
> > passes.
> > As it was it took him 10 days to get back to Virginia from Gettysburg.
> > He may have been able to live off the land near Harrisburg but where
> > would
> > his munitions and
> > replacements come from?? How long could he stay away from Richmond with
> > only Corse and Jenkins covering that area? I just don't see it but I am
> > willing to consider other opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for
> > broke.
> > He had limited goals
> > and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> > probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably
> > would not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
> >
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> Message: 44
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:55:59 -0600
> From: "Jack Lawrence" <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> Message-ID: <EDCC7B93119B4ABDA472D18FF52B4D2B at jackPC>
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> You know, I have driven by multiple times but I have never gone down there.
>
> We have (or had) an esteemed member a couple of years ago who offered the
> tour; dunnoo if he is still with us.
>
> I'll betchee he can give a more coherent story than I can. some of that
> stuff comes from vaguly recalled memories of the Camp Curtain monthly
> magazine.
>
> You might try the camp curtin group, come to think of it.
>
> Regards,
>
> jack
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <CWMHTours at aol.com>
> To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
>
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > THNX Jack-
> >
> > Are the pits extant?
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/27/2012 8:00:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Ft. Couch was erected for the emergency.
> >
> > IIRC, it was part of Halleck,s plan to raise a national militia and man
> > this
> > and other defenses.
> > It was built by free blacks an manned by whatecer was at hand.
> > It was supposed to simply cover the approaches to anotherr fort on the
> > river-name escapes me.
> > Couch kept the main body across the river and I am no sure a crossing v
> >
> > I am doing this by memory, but the civilian population was just not
> > concerned enough to actually join this militia and defe n harrisburg.
> > Most
> > reinforcements came from a new york militia that was not all that
> > effective.
> >
> > Halleck was unwilling to release federal troops, even Pennsylvania units,
> > and pretty much left the defenses up to the Governor.
> >
> > He did authorize the raising of emergency colored units for the
> > emergency.
> > One unit was raised and were put to work defending the Wrightsville
> > bridge.
> > This is the only colored unit that was involved in the Campaign.
> >
> > The colored troops were put together with some white volunteers and put
> > to
> > worg digging gun pits.
> > The white guys apparently resented being relegated to do colored wpork,
> > and
> > just left.
> > The pits were abandoned after the bridge was burned.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jack
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <CWMHTours at aol.com>
> > To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Good post Andy-
> >>
> >> Was Ft Couch prepared just for the '63 invasion or had it been there
> >> before? How extensive was it? Was it upgraded with more cannon after
> >> the
> >> invasion? I've heard of it but know nothing about it. Were there
> >> covering
> >> batteries to guard it flanks?
> >>
> >> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> >> Peter
> >>
> >>
> >> In a message dated 1/27/2012 12:48:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >> amills at jplcreative.com writes:
> >>
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> I don't think Lee ever planned or envisioned reaching so far as
> > Baltimore
> >> or Philadelphia. I think he realized Harrisburg was about as far as
> >> he
> >> could go. He wasn't going to get there with the AOP in his rear and
> > even
> >> if
> >> he conducted a Cannae type battle, he is still forced to retreat back
> >> to
> >> Virginia for the inability to continue an advance (or even holding the
> >> ground
> >> gained).
> >>
> >> I think we see this as part of the reason for Pickett's Charge. He
> >> didn't
> >> have the capabilities to disengage and fight another battle as his army
> >> was almost out of war material to continue. A battle that occurs even
> >> further north exacerbates this need and regardless of its outcome, Lee
> > is
> >> still
> >> forced to fall back.
> >>
> >> However: a direct attack on Harrisburg also had to contend with Fort
> >> Couch (I think called Hummel's Heights at the time [correct me if
> > wrong],
> >> which
> >> is a great little site with some earthworks still visible if you ever
> > get
> >> a chance to visit). I am not sure how well manned it would be, but a
> >> crossing can't occur until this fort is taken, at least in my
> > estimation
> >> as it
> >> had a commanding view of any river crossing.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com
> >> [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> >> On Behalf Of John Grim
> >> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:33 PM
> >> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> >> Subject: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >>
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Esteemed Members
> >>
> >> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> >> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to
> > take
> >> the war
> >> away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and that
> >> troops
> >> might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be political
> >> advantage
> >> to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful east of Harrisburg
> >> with the river at his back and having to contend with Philadelphia,
> >> Baltimore,
> >> Washington and its forts as well as the various units of the Union
> >> army
> >> gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not regulars but they
> >> can
> >> picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally get in the way.
> >> Lee's
> >> communications and supply lines would be extended further and further
> > and
> >> he
> >> would be further away from the protection of the mountains and their
> >> passes.
> >> As it was it took him 10 days to get back to Virginia from Gettysburg.
> >> He may have been able to live off the land near Harrisburg but where
> >> would
> >> his munitions and
> >> replacements come from?? How long could he stay away from Richmond with
> >> only Corse and Jenkins covering that area? I just don't see it but I am
> >> willing to consider other opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for
> >> broke.
> >> He had limited goals
> >> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> >> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably
> >> would not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
> >>
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> Message: 45
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:14:51 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> Message-ID: <2b91b.3cfe7698.3c54b41b at aol.com>
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>
> Nuttin in the Camp Curtin sites.
>
> There are interesting pics if you enter Ft Couch.
>
> Also found a good BBQ restaurant in Harrisburg.
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2012 8:56:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> You know, I have driven by multiple times but I have never gone down there.
>
> We have (or had) an esteemed member a couple of years ago who offered the
> tour; dunnoo if he is still with us.
>
> I'll betchee he can give a more coherent story than I can. some of that
> stuff comes from vaguly recalled memories of the Camp Curtain monthly
> magazine.
>
> You might try the camp curtin group, come to think of it.
>
> Regards,
>
> jack
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <CWMHTours at aol.com>
> To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
>
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > THNX Jack-
> >
> > Are the pits extant?
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/27/2012 8:00:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Ft. Couch was erected for the emergency.
> >
> > IIRC, it was part of Halleck,s plan to raise a national militia and man
> > this
> > and other defenses.
> > It was built by free blacks an manned by whatecer was at hand.
> > It was supposed to simply cover the approaches to anotherr fort on the
> > river-name escapes me.
> > Couch kept the main body across the river and I am no sure a crossing v
> >
> > I am doing this by memory, but the civilian population was just not
> > concerned enough to actually join this militia and defe n harrisburg.
> > Most
> > reinforcements came from a new york militia that was not all that
> > effective.
> >
> > Halleck was unwilling to release federal troops, even Pennsylvania
> units,
> > and pretty much left the defenses up to the Governor.
> >
> > He did authorize the raising of emergency colored units for the
> > emergency.
> > One unit was raised and were put to work defending the Wrightsville
> > bridge.
> > This is the only colored unit that was involved in the Campaign.
> >
> > The colored troops were put together with some white volunteers and put
> > to
> > worg digging gun pits.
> > The white guys apparently resented being relegated to do colored wpork,
> > and
> > just left.
> > The pits were abandoned after the bridge was burned.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jack
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <CWMHTours at aol.com>
> > To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Good post Andy-
> >>
> >> Was Ft Couch prepared just for the '63 invasion or had it been there
> >> before? How extensive was it? Was it upgraded with more cannon
> after
> >> the
> >> invasion? I've heard of it but know nothing about it. Were there
> >> covering
> >> batteries to guard it flanks?
> >>
> >> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> >> Peter
> >>
> >>
> >> In a message dated 1/27/2012 12:48:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >> amills at jplcreative.com writes:
> >>
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> I don't think Lee ever planned or envisioned reaching so far as
> > Baltimore
> >> or Philadelphia. I think he realized Harrisburg was about as far as
> >> he
> >> could go. He wasn't going to get there with the AOP in his rear and
> > even
> >> if
> >> he conducted a Cannae type battle, he is still forced to retreat back
>
> >> to
> >> Virginia for the inability to continue an advance (or even holding the
> >> ground
> >> gained).
> >>
> >> I think we see this as part of the reason for Pickett's Charge. He
> >> didn't
> >> have the capabilities to disengage and fight another battle as his
> army
> >> was almost out of war material to continue. A battle that occurs even
> >> further north exacerbates this need and regardless of its outcome, Lee
> > is
> >> still
> >> forced to fall back.
> >>
> >> However: a direct attack on Harrisburg also had to contend with
> Fort
> >> Couch (I think called Hummel's Heights at the time [correct me if
> > wrong],
> >> which
> >> is a great little site with some earthworks still visible if you ever
> > get
> >> a chance to visit). I am not sure how well manned it would be, but a
> >> crossing can't occur until this fort is taken, at least in my
> > estimation
> >> as it
> >> had a commanding view of any river crossing.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com
> >> [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> >> On Behalf Of John Grim
> >> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:33 PM
> >> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> >> Subject: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >>
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Esteemed Members
> >>
> >> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> >> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to
> > take
> >> the war
> >> away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and that
> >> troops
> >> might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be political
> >> advantage
> >> to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful east of
> Harrisburg
> >> with the river at his back and having to contend with Philadelphia,
> >> Baltimore,
> >> Washington and its forts as well as the various units of the Union
> >> army
> >> gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not regulars but they
> >> can
> >> picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally get in the way.
> >> Lee's
> >> communications and supply lines would be extended further and further
> > and
> >> he
> >> would be further away from the protection of the mountains and their
> >> passes.
> >> As it was it took him 10 days to get back to Virginia from Gettysburg.
> >> He may have been able to live off the land near Harrisburg but where
> >> would
> >> his munitions and
> >> replacements come from?? How long could he stay away from Richmond
> with
> >> only Corse and Jenkins covering that area? I just don't see it but I
> am
> >> willing to consider other opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for
> >> broke.
> >> He had limited goals
> >> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> >> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably
> >> would not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
> >>
> >
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> Message: 46
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:39:12 -0500 (EST)
> From: ATMackeyJr at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- Al Mackey's Question
> Message-ID: <14af1.26096a5a.3c54c7e0 at aol.com>
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>
> Dave,
>
> Thanks very much for the response. I find this story interesting with a
> lot of detective work still to go.
>
> Best Regards,
> Al Mackey
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2012 9:25:09 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> smith_david_g at bah.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
> Al-
>
> Thanks for your question about whether there was a Confederate policy
> regarding capturing fugitive slaves or free blacks.
>
> I wasn't able to find one directing the captures. What I did find was a
> policy concerning what was to be done with captured fugitive slaves - the
> order used the term "arrested", underscoring the Confederate attitude that
> these were fugitives being rightfully recaptured. Apparently some in the
> Confederate army were holding on to recaptured slaves as body servants - the
> order directed that they be sent to the rear to "Camps of Instruction"
> (training camps). One was at Petersburg, I forget where the other was. There
> they were to be held until reclaimed. The order was signed by Walter Taylor
> of Lee's staff, and is in an obscure microfilm collection of General Orders
> in the National Archives. Some years ago Aaron Sheehan-Dean sent me a
> diary reference of an officer in the Confederate cavalry doing just that,
> traveling back to reclaim his fugitive slave that had been recaptured.
>
> Some years ago I thought I had found the holy grail when a popular book on
> the campaign said that Longstreet had ordered the capture of African
> Americans. However, I corresponded with the author and he could not remember
> where he had gotten that information from (he wrote a lot of books). I now
> believe he was probably extrapolating from the fact that Maxie Sorrel of
> Longstreet's staff sent an order regarding disposition of captured
> "contrabands" on July 1. But that doesn't prove to me that Longstreet was the
> original impetus - in fact, it seems unlikely, since Ewell's corps was involved
> from the beginning, and Longstreet's was the last to enter Pennsylvania.
> I'll leave the author nameless since I think he made an honest mistake.
>
> Unfortunately, the Confederate order books I have been able to look at are
> pretty incomplete for the Pennsylvania campaign. They don't seem to be
> well kept up during that time.
>
> Regarding fugitives versus free blacks, a lot of Confederates did not have
> a very good knowledge of the North. I have seen a Richmond newspaper urge
> in 1862 that retaliation be carried out on Pennsylvania's African
> Americans, only to say immediately after that words to the effect, "but as there
> are no Negroes in Pennsylvania, other targets will have to be found." I
> think some soldiers would have assumed that every African American they
> encountered would have been a fugitive slave. In truth, many fugitive slaves had
> migrated to that part of Pennsylvania, but south-central Pennsylvania also
> had a free African American population of its own. Some Confederate
> commanders tried to distinguish between the two, one taking a member of the
> Greencastle town council with him to indicate whether African Americans were
> local free blacks or fugitives (the story goes that the councilman vouched for
> every African American he saw, whether they were local or not). Most rank
> and file soldie
> rs would not have known this, but in 1840, the Commissioner of the Census
> (who was a Southerner) had pretty much implied free blacks could not
> survive in the North without dying or going insane. I think most Southerners
> didn't think about big communities of free blacks.
>
> In line with the policy, most African Americans captured in Pennsylvania
> were sent to Winchester and/or Staunton to be reclaimed by Shenandoah Valley
> farmers. Those that were not reclaimed were sent to Richmond - that
> becomes another part of the story.
>
> Thanks for your interest.
>
> David G. Smith
>
>
>
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> Message: 47
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:31:49 -0800 (PST)
> From: Richard Garrison <rgarrison212 at yahoo.com>
> To: gdbrown6 at verizon.net, cnieckarz at nycap.rr.com,
> joagarrison17 at yahoo.com, richgarrison at yahoo.com,
> gina.garrison at acphs.edu, gettysburg at arthes.com
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> ... http://www.cannonacasa.com.ar/work.link.php?bpage=03ki9
>
>
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>
> Message: 48
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:43:47 -0500
> From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: GDG- FW: 75th Reunion in Gettysburg in 1938
> Message-ID: <LDECKGPDMLODKMMFANMBMEEJDHAA.pennmardel at mchsi.com>
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>
> Thanks to everyone who responded. Since I did not receive the replies
> before my meeting, I will follow up with your suggestions during our next
> get together.
>
> Wanted to share with you my neighbor's great grandfather's discharge papers.
> After examining them, it appears that this is a fanciful reproduction of the
> dischage as a keepsake. It is elaborately decorated in color illustrations
> of CW scenes. Apparently, from the notation at the bottom, Private Gray had
> this rendition of the discharge papers made esspecially as a gift for his
> family.
>
> Appreciate any comments you may have about them. This was written in a
> fancy script, so was a little difficult to transcribe. John C. might be
> John E. At least that is what his great grandson believes. Hard to tell
> from the script.
>
> This is somewhat OT, but indirectly relates to 75th Reunion topic. I will
> post more about the Reunion as I go over my notes.
>
> Here is the wording of the discharge:
>
>
> This is to certify
>
> that
>
> John C. Gray
>
> Enlisted August 23rd 1864 from Chester County, Pa. and was mustered into the
> United States service at West Chester, Pa. to serve one year as a private in
> Capt. S.S. Richardson?s Battery E, 1st Regt Pennsylvania Vol. Artillery.
>
> The Battery formed part of the 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac and Comrade
> Gray shared the fortunes of the Battery in all its movements and engagements
> during the operations around Petersburg through the Siege and Fall of the
> City Ap 2, 65. Participated in the pursuit of Lee along the South Side
> Railroad to Appomattox. Also engaged in garrison duty. The Battery held a
> high reputation for its efficiency and was commended for distinguished
> service. Comrade Gray was Honorably Discharged June 21, 1865 at Harper?s
> Ferry [West] Va. By reason of close of war.
>
> Member of the W.S. Thompson Post, No. 132 G.A.R., Oxford, Pa.
>
> Presented by Comrade Gray to his wife Ida and children Hattie L., John E.,
> Clarence S., Allie, and Marjorie, Aug. 16, 1901.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 49
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:53:51 -0500
> From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Memoir of post-battle visits to Gettysburg
> Message-ID: <LDECKGPDMLODKMMFANMBAEEKDHAA.pennmardel at mchsi.com>
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> <<That "large body of cavalry" would seem to have either been McIntosh's
> or Gregg's brigade since on the 4th, Pleasanton had told Kilpatrick to take
> his division to Emmittsburg where he would find Huey's Brigade waiting,
> which had been brought over from Westminster to be ready to pounce on any
> of Lee's trains moving south via Hagerstown (Coddington, Pg. 544). Given
> that Huey had already deployed that far south, it would seem strange that
> the brigade would then be pulled all the way back to Gettysburg simply to
> report to Gregg for orders. But with Pleasanton, one never knows.
> However, it would seem that the "large body of cavalry" must have
> been one of Gregg's brigades and Shantz had the wrong date of July 8 for
> when he saw the cavalry.Matt,
>
> My guess also is that it may have be part of Gregg's division.>>
>
> Matt,
>
> Thanks for your input on this.
>
> You may be right about that, since Irvin Gregg's brigade captured a large
> number of Rebel prisoners that were straggling along the Chambersburg Road,
> and these had to be escorted back to Gettysburg. What Dr. Schantz may have
> seen were these cavalry contingents of Gregg's getting ready to return to
> the brigade. There are reports of this activity in the OR.
>
> Regards, Tom Ryan
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 50
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:05:05 -0600
> From: John Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
> Message-ID: <glxbmcx9fnue0red1yxk7jjo.1327698185609 at email.android.com>
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> Well, I learned the term" grunt" in the army while not serving in the war Dennis, Bob (nor I for that matter) do not feel us appropriate for the group.Who really wants to through those arguments again?
> Anyway, I apologize for assuming that the term "grunt" was coined in the army.
> But you have to agree that it sounds a bit too sophisticated for a marine.
>
> OK. I went a long way to get there, but it was worth it. :>)))
>
> My grandson is, discharged and he and his wife have just started construction of our third great grand child.
> Thanks.
> Jack
> George, for the sane of full disclosure,
> The finest CO I everservvrd under was a former Marine. He taught me as much about service as my father did about life.
> Probably an anomaly.
>
>
> George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >Marines coined the term "Grunt" in the early 60s (before that conflict Dennis doesn't want us to mention) when just about everyone in the Army was mechanized. That's a fact, Jack!
> >
> >Is your grandson still on active duty?
> >
> >Semper Fi,
> >
> >George
> >26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >
> >On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Jack Lawrence wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> I thought you were a Marine?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Jack
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Connell" <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> >> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> >> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:40 AM
> >> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
> >>
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Rookies talk about strategy, professionals talk logistics!
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> George
> >>> A Grunt
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 9:54, dherko at kc.rr.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>> Lee could not have drawn the AoP away from their supply base by going North.
> >>>>
> >>>> The Union had developed a series of permanent and temporary supply depots. I did quite a bit of study on City Point. Montgomery Meigs was the QM General, Ingals was the AoP QM chief. As the AoP moved across Virginia throughout the war, the War Department closed and opened temporary depots - city point was the best example. Permanent depots were just informed by telegraph or other means on how to push supplies and to where they would go.
> >>>>
> >>>> The greatest example of Union Supply efficiency was the mail for Sherman's Army. Sherman had not informed the war department on the exact timeand place of where he would emerge at the end of his march. His troops received the fisrt batch of mail within the week, I think actually four days but less than seven is good enough for arguement's sake. The Union Supply system was that good.
> >>>>
> >>>> At Petersburg, if I was a regimental QM, I could request a set of shoes size 16EE. The request would flow up the chain of command (QM side) through the AoP to Ingals office, as the now Chief of QM for the Armies Operating around Richmond (or whatever title he had). His department was operating out of the Epp plantation house overlooking the City Point Warfs. If the clothing warehouses did not have the set of shoes, the request was passed to Meigs HQ in DC, where the request would be sent to the depot for clothing (lets say Boston for instance) if Boston Depot did not have the 16EE, they would contact the manufacturer and several sets of 16EE shoes were made, sent to Boston, forward an intermediate depot if one was assigned for low priority routine deliveries or possibly put on a ship right to City Point if the request was given a higher priority. Remember City Point was, during the seige, the busiest port in the world.
> >>>>
> >>>> Conferderate Soldiers who for months smelled fresh bread being delivered to Union troops at Petersburg were in awe when they were proceessed through City Point as prisoners.
> >>>>
> >>>> Again that is Lee not truly understanding what he was up against. His men were supplying themselves for two years on Union good (sadlles, blankets, weapons, clothing, wagons, cannon, anything they could pick up) the supply never stopped. The wagon train that Stuart captured had 250 brand new wagons with brand new bits, straps, harnesses, theat stuff was being crated at record pace.
> >>>>
> >>>> As Lee was running out of serviceable horses, Meade had more than he could use. Hunt was able to create a secret wagon train filled with ammunition for a big fight. The corperate Union Army, that was prosecuting the war strategically was light years ahead of the CSA. Only Sherman's Army during his Georgia was the only Union Army that ever was completely severed fro the Union supply system.
> >>>>
> >>>> VR
> >>>> Don Herko (US Army Loggie)
> >>>>
> >>>> --- Tom Barrett <tbarrett21 at cox.net> wrote:
> >>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> From a military standpoint, I think he wanted to draw the AoP far enough so
> >>>>> that they were separated from their supply and support bases and far enough
> >>>>> that they would be tired, scattered, and not able to concentrate
> >>>>> effectively. Drawing them toward Harrisburg was a good plan, but spreading
> >>>>> them out would have been even better, so the AoP Corps couldn't quickly
> >>>>> support one another.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think he figured that his forces would be more rested and better
> >>>>> concentrated than the AoP, and that he'd pick off and defeat the Union units
> >>>>> as they came north.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As it turned out, Gettysburg wasn't far enough, and the AoP was well
> >>>>> organized, well supplied, and was able to concentrate effectively. For
> >>>>> whatever reason, Lee chose to attack anyway.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> TB
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ________________________________
> >>>>> >
> >>>>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>>> I tend to favor the notion that Harrisburg was a decoy to draw Union
> >>>>> forces out into the open. I absolutely believe that Lee would have sent
> >>>>> forces into the city, primarily to destroy railroad infrastructure, damage
> >>>>> manufacturing operations, capture supplies, and generally create further
> >>>>> panic in the north, but holding the city was never an option. I believe
> >>>>> there was a relatively small window of opportunity for the ANV to operate
> >>>>> in Pennsylvania.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:13 PM, keith mackenzie wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>>>> I've read a couple of posts where the esteemed member insisted that Lee
> >>>>> did not intend to hold Harrisburg if he did in fact assault and take it.
> >>>>>>>> I don't know if it was more than one poster or only one several times.
> >>>>>>>> My
> >>>>>>>> question is, does anyone think he would have attempted to hold it? I
> >>>>> don't think anyone has put forward that POV, but I might have missed it.
> >>>>>>>> thanks
> >>>>>>>> K.
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> Message: 51
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:44:34 -0600
> From: John Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> You were correct last week and that has not changed.
> Others still disagree.
> Regards,
> Jack
>
> Tom <bunco973 at optonline.net> wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>
> >Sometimes I
> >wonder whether Lee headed
> >North, besides the tried and true reasons, to stave off the chance of losing
> >some of his command to the West (Vicksburg especially). Commanders don't
> >like to lose troops to another command, maybe an ego thing ;-D. Not saying
> >Lee's best interests for the Confederacy were not in his heart, but the
> >acceleration of his movements after meeting with Davis was (to me) a bit
> >suspect. <<<<<<
> >
> >I had posted the above last week - thought I was one of the few that felt
> >this way. Just a theory - but it's almost like "See ya Mr. Davis - we're
> >leaving now - I'll be in touch". A few weeks later, Lee advises that he has
> >to cut off communications back to Richmond due partially to manpower
> >shortages. As an aside - back to Harrisburg - there has to be some strong
> >reasons that initially Lee is looking at Harrisburg - Ewell at Carlisle -
> >Early/Gordon at Wrightsville - another words, a full Corps north & south of
> >Harrisburg (whether to entice the AOP, raid the city, or invest it for a
> >short time). I join with the "Lee was decoying the AOP to hasten north" on
> >the premise that supposedly Lee felt the AOP wasn't moving fast enough north
> >for him (Stuart not communicating same to Lee). Lee was in the land of
> >plenty, but subsisting 75-80,000 men would only go so far in PA.
> >Logistically, that's a long stretch from PA, back through the Shenandoah to
> >VA. I realize that's oversimplifying the matter, but that's how I see it, I
> >truly think he would have been better taking another foray into Maryland -
> >but I don't wish to go into what if territory.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Tom B.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Andy Mills
> >Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:23 PM
> >To: GDG
> >Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >It makes perfect sense though if the real motivation was simply to keep his
> >precious ANV together and not have part of it shipped off to Vicksburg. Lee
> >couldn't be straight with Davis about this and came up with the crop story
> >as a sidebar to his real motivations. When asked why troops shouldn't be
> >sent to Vicksburg, Lee couldn't simply state "because I don't want to send
> >them." He had to present a valid case for keeping them assigned to his
> >army.
> >
> >Just don't ask me to prove this, but this is my belief of the true reason he
> >invaded the North - to keep the ANV intact, the army he had "nurtured and
> >created" (yes, I am aware technically the army existed prior to his command,
> >but no one in the Confederacy remembers an army pre June 1862).
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> >On Behalf Of dherko at kc.rr.com
> >Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:00 PM
> >To: GDG
> >Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >John,
> >
> >that is exactly the shortsidedness of Lee's strategy he convinced Davis to
> >support.
> >
> >Crops are planted in the Spring and harvested in the fall. Lee could not
> >possibly stay up North for that length of time. He could not have possibly
> >protected Virginia's corps for an enitre planitng season.
> >
> >As for Vicksburg. By late June, Vicksburg was gone. Once Lee convince
> >Davis of a course of action, the garrison's fate was sealed. Had Lee won on
> >July 3rd (before he really planned to fight Meade) Pemberton had
> >surrendered, he was just trying to negotiate a better deal.
> >
> >Until Grant came East, there was not a Northern General that could lace
> >Lee's boots on the tactical battlefield. Lee however, fought for Virginia
> >and Vriginia alone. He completely failed to understand the implications of
> >losing Vicksburg. He was resistant to send troops to the Carolina coast,
> >did not want Longstreet to go to Chickamauga. He was myopic on Strategy, he
> >protected Virginia and Virginia was in the fight until the end.
> >
> >VR
> >Don
> >
> >
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> Message: 52
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:41:55 -0600
> From: John Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> Of course this was after Lee shot down the initial plan to reinforce the west.
> Regards,
> Jack
>
> George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >It's a fact that Lee spent two days in Richmond (I think it was two; I'm on a trip and away from my books) with Davis going over options. It's also a fact that Davis and his entire cabinet (with one vote against--that being Reagan, the postmaster general and a pretty smart guy) voted in favor of the move into Pennsylvania. These were not shy men, nor men of limited intelligence, but rather men of considerable experience, some of whom had vested interests in the West. I don't think Lee pulled a fast one.
> >
> >When you consider the options carefully, sending troops west was not a good idea. I have explained why before and would be happy to do so again after this trip. Sending Lee and troops that way would have been a lot better, but then who would replace Lee. I think the fundamental problem at that point in the war was that the Confederacy lacked sufficient competent top-level commanders. This was less a troop-strength problem than a find-a-good-aggressive-commander problem.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >George
> >26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >
> >On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:33 PM, John Grim wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Esteemed Members
> >>
> >> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> >> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to take
> >> the war away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and
> >> that troops might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be
> >> political advantage to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful
> >> east of Harrisburg with the river at his back and having to contend with
> >> Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and its forts as well as the various
> >> units of the Union army gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not
> >> regulars but they can picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally
> >> get in the way. Lee's communications and supply lines would be extended
> >> further and further and he would be further away from the protection of the
> >> mountains and their passes. As it was it took him 10 days to get back to
> >> Virginia from Gettysburg. He may have been able to live off the land near
> >> Harrisburg but where would his munitions and replacements come from?? How
> >> long could he stay away from Richmond with only Corse and Jenkins covering
> >> that area? I just don't see it but I am willing to consider other
> >> opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for broke. He had limited goals
> >> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> >> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably would
> >> not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 53
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:06:50 -0600
> From: John Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg"
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> Then you should know better.
> Regards,
> Jack
>
>
> George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >I have it nearly memorized! Coddington, Smoddington; Southall Freeman was masterful! Have you read his George Washington biography? Magnificent (as long as you have six months to spare)!
> >
> >Semper Fi, Do or Die!
> >
> >George
> >26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >
> >On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Jack Lawrence wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> George, I think you need to review Lee and His Lieutenants.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Jack
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Connell" <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> >> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> >> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:52 AM
> >> Subject: Re: GDG- "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg"
> >>
> >>
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> I believe so--and I think he was flat-on-his-back sick that time.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> George
> >> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >>
> >> On Jan 27, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Andy Mills wrote:
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Isn't this the same reason claimed he failed to attack on the North Anna in 1864?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of John Lawrence
> >>> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:21 PM
> >>> To: GDG
> >>> Subject: Re: GDG- "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg"
> >>>
> >>> I cannot see an army commander not functioning because of health, unless he was comatose.
> >>> If he was healthy enough to tell Longstreet to quit his whining, he was healthy enough to command.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Jack
> >>>
> >>>
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> Message: 54
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:47:02 -0600
> From: John Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> Nice rebuttal.
> If you are going to light candles for me, I prefer blue ones.
> They cost more.
> Regards,
> Jack
>
> George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >Jack,
> >
> >You've slipped over the rhetorical edge again! I have a toll-free counseling number I can give you.
> >
> >Praying for your recovery,
> >
> >George
> >26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >
> >On Jan 27, 2012, at 2:12 PM, John Lawrence wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Lee was a Lee of Virginia.
> >> Hi people had been of Virginia be fire their was a United States. They hailed from a place so remote it was once bombaeded by pirates.
> >> To the Lees, Virginia WAS their country.
> >> Lee entered service in the Confederacy not out of treason nor did he hold allegiance to the Confederacy. He e was a Lee OF Virginia. Lee entered the service of the Confederacy to serve Virginia only.
> >> So when Lee took his forces north, he did it only to spare Virginia. He cared not if the Confederacy died.
> >> Virginia must be spared.
> >> Regards,
> >> Jack
> >>
> >> dherko at kc.rr.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> John,
> >>>
> >>> that is exactly the shortsidedness of Lee's strategy he convinced Davis to support.
> >>>
> >>> Crops are planted in the Spring and harvested in the fall. Lee could not possibly stay up North for that length of time. He could not have possibly protected Virginia's corps for an enitre planitng season.
> >>>
> >>> As for Vicksburg. By late June, Vicksburg was gone. Once Lee convince Davis of a course of action, the garrison's fate was sealed. Had Lee won on July 3rd (before he really planned to fight Meade) Pemberton had surrendered, he was just trying to negotiate a better deal.
> >>>
> >>> Until Grant came East, there was not a Northern General that could lace Lee's boots on the tactical battlefield. Lee however, fought for Virginia and Vriginia alone. He completely failed to understand the implications of losing Vicksburg. He was resistant to send troops to the Carolina coast, did not want Longstreet to go to Chickamauga. He was myopic on Strategy, he protected Virginia and Virginia was in the fight until the end.
> >>>
> >>> VR
> >>> Don
> >>>
> >>> ---- John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>> Esteemed Members
> >>>>
> >>>> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> >>>> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to take
> >>>> the war away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and
> >>>> that troops might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be
> >>>> political advantage to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful
> >>>> east of Harrisburg with the river at his back and having to contend with
> >>>> Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and its forts as well as the various
> >>>> units of the Union army gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not
> >>>> regulars but they can picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally
> >>>> get in the way. Lee's communications and supply lines would be extended
> >>>> further and further and he would be further away from the protection of the
> >>>> mountains and their passes. As it was it took him 10 days to get back to
> >>>> Virginia from Gettysburg. He may have been able to live off the land near
> >>>> Harrisburg but where would his munitions and replacements come from?? How
> >>>> long could he stay away from Richmond with only Corse and Jenkins covering
> >>>> that area? I just don't see it but I am willing to consider other
> >>>> opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for broke. He had limited goals
> >>>> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> >>>> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably would
> >>>> not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 55
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:40:44 -0600
> From: John Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> No, I was talking about the group.
> Forget who they are, but they have a group.
> I forget the names. I joined the group as a favor because one of them would set up as a vendor at the muster. I think Margaret hails from that direction.
> Maybe she knows who they are.
> Regards.
> Jack
>
>
> CWMHTours at aol.com wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >Nuttin in the Camp Curtin sites.
> >
> >There are interesting pics if you enter Ft Couch.
> >
> >Also found a good BBQ restaurant in Harrisburg.
> >
> >A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> >Peter
> >
> >
> >In a message dated 1/27/2012 8:56:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:
> >
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >You know, I have driven by multiple times but I have never gone down there.
> >
> >We have (or had) an esteemed member a couple of years ago who offered the
> >tour; dunnoo if he is still with us.
> >
> >I'll betchee he can give a more coherent story than I can. some of that
> >stuff comes from vaguly recalled memories of the Camp Curtain monthly
> >magazine.
> >
> >You might try the camp curtin group, come to think of it.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >jack
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <CWMHTours at aol.com>
> >To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> >Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 7:04 PM
> >Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> THNX Jack-
> >>
> >> Are the pits extant?
> >>
> >> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> >> Peter
> >>
> >>
> >> In a message dated 1/27/2012 8:00:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >> jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:
> >>
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Ft. Couch was erected for the emergency.
> >>
> >> IIRC, it was part of Halleck,s plan to raise a national militia and man
> >> this
> >> and other defenses.
> >> It was built by free blacks an manned by whatecer was at hand.
> >> It was supposed to simply cover the approaches to anotherr fort on the
> >> river-name escapes me.
> >> Couch kept the main body across the river and I am no sure a crossing v
> >>
> >> I am doing this by memory, but the civilian population was just not
> >> concerned enough to actually join this militia and defe n harrisburg.
> >> Most
> >> reinforcements came from a new york militia that was not all that
> >> effective.
> >>
> >> Halleck was unwilling to release federal troops, even Pennsylvania
> >units,
> >> and pretty much left the defenses up to the Governor.
> >>
> >> He did authorize the raising of emergency colored units for the
> >> emergency.
> >> One unit was raised and were put to work defending the Wrightsville
> >> bridge.
> >> This is the only colored unit that was involved in the Campaign.
> >>
> >> The colored troops were put together with some white volunteers and put
> >> to
> >> worg digging gun pits.
> >> The white guys apparently resented being relegated to do colored wpork,
> >> and
> >> just left.
> >> The pits were abandoned after the bridge was burned.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Jack
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <CWMHTours at aol.com>
> >> To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> >> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:24 PM
> >> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >>
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Good post Andy-
> >>>
> >>> Was Ft Couch prepared just for the '63 invasion or had it been there
> >>> before? How extensive was it? Was it upgraded with more cannon
> >after
> >>> the
> >>> invasion? I've heard of it but know nothing about it. Were there
> >>> covering
> >>> batteries to guard it flanks?
> >>>
> >>> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> >>> Peter
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> In a message dated 1/27/2012 12:48:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >>> amills at jplcreative.com writes:
> >>>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> I don't think Lee ever planned or envisioned reaching so far as
> >> Baltimore
> >>> or Philadelphia. I think he realized Harrisburg was about as far as
> >>> he
> >>> could go. He wasn't going to get there with the AOP in his rear and
> >> even
> >>> if
> >>> he conducted a Cannae type battle, he is still forced to retreat back
> >
> >>> to
> >>> Virginia for the inability to continue an advance (or even holding the
> >>> ground
> >>> gained).
> >>>
> >>> I think we see this as part of the reason for Pickett's Charge. He
> >>> didn't
> >>> have the capabilities to disengage and fight another battle as his
> >army
> >>> was almost out of war material to continue. A battle that occurs even
> >>> further north exacerbates this need and regardless of its outcome, Lee
> >> is
> >>> still
> >>> forced to fall back.
> >>>
> >>> However: a direct attack on Harrisburg also had to contend with
> >Fort
> >>> Couch (I think called Hummel's Heights at the time [correct me if
> >> wrong],
> >>> which
> >>> is a great little site with some earthworks still visible if you ever
> >> get
> >>> a chance to visit). I am not sure how well manned it would be, but a
> >>> crossing can't occur until this fort is taken, at least in my
> >> estimation
> >>> as it
> >>> had a commanding view of any river crossing.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com
> >>> [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> >>> On Behalf Of John Grim
> >>> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:33 PM
> >>> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> >>> Subject: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >>>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Esteemed Members
> >>>
> >>> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> >>> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to
> >> take
> >>> the war
> >>> away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and that
> >>> troops
> >>> might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be political
> >>> advantage
> >>> to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful east of
> >Harrisburg
> >>> with the river at his back and having to contend with Philadelphia,
> >>> Baltimore,
> >>> Washington and its forts as well as the various units of the Union
> >>> army
> >>> gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not regulars but they
> >>> can
> >>> picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally get in the way.
> >>> Lee's
> >>> communications and supply lines would be extended further and further
> >> and
> >>> he
> >>> would be further away from the protection of the mountains and their
> >>> passes.
> >>> As it was it took him 10 days to get back to Virginia from Gettysburg.
> >>> He may have been able to live off the land near Harrisburg but where
> >>> would
> >>> his munitions and
> >>> replacements come from?? How long could he stay away from Richmond
> >with
> >>> only Corse and Jenkins covering that area? I just don't see it but I
> >am
> >>> willing to consider other opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for
> >>> broke.
> >>> He had limited goals
> >>> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> >>> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably
> >>> would not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
> >>>
> >>
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> Message: 56
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:55:03 -0500
> From: George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg"
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> I'm on a trip just now (without Freeman). I recall Lee was flat on his back at the North Anna but that may not be from Freeman. Can you please elaborate?
>
> Regards,
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 4:06 PM, John Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Then you should know better.
> > Regards,
> > Jack
> >
> >
> > George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> I have it nearly memorized! Coddington, Smoddington; Southall Freeman was masterful! Have you read his George Washington biography? Magnificent (as long as you have six months to spare)!
> >>
> >> Semper Fi, Do or Die!
> >>
> >> George
> >> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >>
> >> On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Jack Lawrence wrote:
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> George, I think you need to review Lee and His Lieutenants.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Jack
> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Connell" <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> >>> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> >>> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:52 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: GDG- "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> I believe so--and I think he was flat-on-his-back sick that time.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> George
> >>> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Andy Mills wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>> Isn't this the same reason claimed he failed to attack on the North Anna in 1864?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of John Lawrence
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:21 PM
> >>>> To: GDG
> >>>> Subject: Re: GDG- "Lee's Illness Lost Gettysburg"
> >>>>
> >>>> I cannot see an army commander not functioning because of health, unless he was comatose.
> >>>> If he was healthy enough to tell Longstreet to quit his whining, he was healthy enough to command.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Jack
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> Message: 57
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:59:33 -0500
> From: George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> Candles, witchdoctors, novenas, Ernest Ainsley--I've got everything and everybody working on this.
>
> Deeply concerned,
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 4:47 PM, John Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Nice rebuttal.
> > If you are going to light candles for me, I prefer blue ones.
> > They cost more.
> > Regards,
> > Jack
> >
> > George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Jack,
> >>
> >> You've slipped over the rhetorical edge again! I have a toll-free counseling number I can give you.
> >>
> >> Praying for your recovery,
> >>
> >> George
> >> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >>
> >> On Jan 27, 2012, at 2:12 PM, John Lawrence wrote:
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Lee was a Lee of Virginia.
> >>> Hi people had been of Virginia be fire their was a United States. They hailed from a place so remote it was once bombaeded by pirates.
> >>> To the Lees, Virginia WAS their country.
> >>> Lee entered service in the Confederacy not out of treason nor did he hold allegiance to the Confederacy. He e was a Lee OF Virginia. Lee entered the service of the Confederacy to serve Virginia only.
> >>> So when Lee took his forces north, he did it only to spare Virginia. He cared not if the Confederacy died.
> >>> Virginia must be spared.
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Jack
> >>>
> >>> dherko at kc.rr.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>> John,
> >>>>
> >>>> that is exactly the shortsidedness of Lee's strategy he convinced Davis to support.
> >>>>
> >>>> Crops are planted in the Spring and harvested in the fall. Lee could not possibly stay up North for that length of time. He could not have possibly protected Virginia's corps for an enitre planitng season.
> >>>>
> >>>> As for Vicksburg. By late June, Vicksburg was gone. Once Lee convince Davis of a course of action, the garrison's fate was sealed. Had Lee won on July 3rd (before he really planned to fight Meade) Pemberton had surrendered, he was just trying to negotiate a better deal.
> >>>>
> >>>> Until Grant came East, there was not a Northern General that could lace Lee's boots on the tactical battlefield. Lee however, fought for Virginia and Vriginia alone. He completely failed to understand the implications of losing Vicksburg. He was resistant to send troops to the Carolina coast, did not want Longstreet to go to Chickamauga. He was myopic on Strategy, he protected Virginia and Virginia was in the fight until the end.
> >>>>
> >>>> VR
> >>>> Don
> >>>>
> >>>> ---- John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>> Esteemed Members
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> >>>>> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to take
> >>>>> the war away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and
> >>>>> that troops might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be
> >>>>> political advantage to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful
> >>>>> east of Harrisburg with the river at his back and having to contend with
> >>>>> Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and its forts as well as the various
> >>>>> units of the Union army gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not
> >>>>> regulars but they can picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally
> >>>>> get in the way. Lee's communications and supply lines would be extended
> >>>>> further and further and he would be further away from the protection of the
> >>>>> mountains and their passes. As it was it took him 10 days to get back to
> >>>>> Virginia from Gettysburg. He may have been able to live off the land near
> >>>>> Harrisburg but where would his munitions and replacements come from?? How
> >>>>> long could he stay away from Richmond with only Corse and Jenkins covering
> >>>>> that area? I just don't see it but I am willing to consider other
> >>>>> opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for broke. He had limited goals
> >>>>> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> >>>>> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably would
> >>>>> not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 58
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:59:31 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> Yes I found a couple websites with them but nothing related to Ft Couch.
>
> The pics I found were pretty good. A rather substantial set of
> earthworks. Thank Gawd they were preserved.
>
> I was surprised that it was on the western shore of the Susq. R. I
> thought it would have on the east5 side S. of Hrsbg close to the river. They
> mentioned that there was a Ft Washington on the east side in what is now
> Hrsbg. Apparently the hill Ft Couch sat on was higher than Ft Wash and could
> threaten that fort of the Confs got it so that was the reason for it being.
>
> I wonder how close the Confs got to it while they were up there. Don't
> recall any storiues of the fort firing it's guns.
>
> P.S. I wanna go find that BBQ place. It looked good.
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/28/2012 9:50:42 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> No, I was talking about the group.
> Forget who they are, but they have a group.
> I forget the names. I joined the group as a favor because one of them
> would set up as a vendor at the muster. I think Margaret hails from that
> direction.
> Maybe she knows who they are.
> Regards.
> Jack
>
>
> CWMHTours at aol.com wrote:
>
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >Nuttin in the Camp Curtin sites.
> >
> >There are interesting pics if you enter Ft Couch.
> >
> >Also found a good BBQ restaurant in Harrisburg.
> >
> >A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> >Peter
> >
> >
> >In a message dated 1/27/2012 8:56:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:
> >
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >You know, I have driven by multiple times but I have never gone down
> there.
> >
> >We have (or had) an esteemed member a couple of years ago who offered
> the
> >tour; dunnoo if he is still with us.
> >
> >I'll betchee he can give a more coherent story than I can. some of that
> >stuff comes from vaguly recalled memories of the Camp Curtain monthly
> >magazine.
> >
> >You might try the camp curtin group, come to think of it.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >jack
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <CWMHTours at aol.com>
> >To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> >Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 7:04 PM
> >Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> THNX Jack-
> >>
> >> Are the pits extant?
> >>
> >> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> >> Peter
> >>
> >>
> >> In a message dated 1/27/2012 8:00:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >> jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:
> >>
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Ft. Couch was erected for the emergency.
> >>
> >> IIRC, it was part of Halleck,s plan to raise a national militia and
> man
> >> this
> >> and other defenses.
> >> It was built by free blacks an manned by whatecer was at hand.
> >> It was supposed to simply cover the approaches to anotherr fort on the
> >> river-name escapes me.
> >> Couch kept the main body across the river and I am no sure a crossing
> v
> >>
> >> I am doing this by memory, but the civilian population was just not
> >> concerned enough to actually join this militia and defe n harrisburg.
> >> Most
> >> reinforcements came from a new york militia that was not all that
> >> effective.
> >>
> >> Halleck was unwilling to release federal troops, even Pennsylvania
> >units,
> >> and pretty much left the defenses up to the Governor.
> >>
> >> He did authorize the raising of emergency colored units for the
> >> emergency.
> >> One unit was raised and were put to work defending the Wrightsville
> >> bridge.
> >> This is the only colored unit that was involved in the Campaign.
> >>
> >> The colored troops were put together with some white volunteers and
> put
> >> to
> >> worg digging gun pits.
> >> The white guys apparently resented being relegated to do colored
> wpork,
> >> and
> >> just left.
> >> The pits were abandoned after the bridge was burned.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Jack
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <CWMHTours at aol.com>
> >> To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> >> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:24 PM
> >> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >>
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Good post Andy-
> >>>
> >>> Was Ft Couch prepared just for the '63 invasion or had it been
> there
> >>> before? How extensive was it? Was it upgraded with more cannon
> >after
> >>> the
> >>> invasion? I've heard of it but know nothing about it. Were
> there
> >>> covering
> >>> batteries to guard it flanks?
> >>>
> >>> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> >>> Peter
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> In a message dated 1/27/2012 12:48:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >>> amills at jplcreative.com writes:
> >>>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> I don't think Lee ever planned or envisioned reaching so far as
> >> Baltimore
> >>> or Philadelphia. I think he realized Harrisburg was about as far
> as
> >>> he
> >>> could go. He wasn't going to get there with the AOP in his rear and
> >> even
> >>> if
> >>> he conducted a Cannae type battle, he is still forced to retreat
> back
> >
> >>> to
> >>> Virginia for the inability to continue an advance (or even holding
> the
> >>> ground
> >>> gained).
> >>>
> >>> I think we see this as part of the reason for Pickett's Charge. He
> >>> didn't
> >>> have the capabilities to disengage and fight another battle as his
> >army
> >>> was almost out of war material to continue. A battle that occurs
> even
> >>> further north exacerbates this need and regardless of its outcome,
> Lee
> >> is
> >>> still
> >>> forced to fall back.
> >>>
> >>> However: a direct attack on Harrisburg also had to contend with
> >Fort
> >>> Couch (I think called Hummel's Heights at the time [correct me if
> >> wrong],
> >>> which
> >>> is a great little site with some earthworks still visible if you
> ever
> >> get
> >>> a chance to visit). I am not sure how well manned it would be,
> but a
> >>> crossing can't occur until this fort is taken, at least in my
> >> estimation
> >>> as it
> >>> had a commanding view of any river crossing.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com
> >>> [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> >>> On Behalf Of John Grim
> >>> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:33 PM
> >>> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> >>> Subject: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> >>>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Esteemed Members
> >>>
> >>> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> >>> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north
> to
> >> take
> >>> the war
> >>> away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and
> that
> >>> troops
> >>> might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be political
> >>> advantage
> >>> to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful east of
> >Harrisburg
> >>> with the river at his back and having to contend with Philadelphia,
> >>> Baltimore,
> >>> Washington and its forts as well as the various units of the Union
> >>> army
> >>> gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not regulars but
> they
> >>> can
> >>> picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally get in the way.
> >>> Lee's
> >>> communications and supply lines would be extended further and
> further
> >> and
> >>> he
> >>> would be further away from the protection of the mountains and
> their
> >>> passes.
> >>> As it was it took him 10 days to get back to Virginia from
> Gettysburg.
> >>> He may have been able to live off the land near Harrisburg but where
> >>> would
> >>> his munitions and
> >>> replacements come from?? How long could he stay away from Richmond
> >with
> >>> only Corse and Jenkins covering that area? I just don't see it but
> I
> >am
> >>> willing to consider other opinions. Lee's operation was not a go
> for
> >>> broke.
> >>> He had limited goals
> >>> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia
> would
> >>> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he
> probably
> >>> would not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
> >>>
> >>
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> Message: 59
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:10:47 -0500
> From: George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> Message-ID: <EB86B02D-067C-4F1E-B094-1036D685981F at mac.com>
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> Because it wasn't a good plan. Davis, a man from the West, no fool, and quite capable of making his own decisions, saw this. I wish you could too!
>
> I will convince you--someday, someday, someday....
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 4:41 PM, John Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Of course this was after Lee shot down the initial plan to reinforce the west.
> > Regards,
> > Jack
> >
> > George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> It's a fact that Lee spent two days in Richmond (I think it was two; I'm on a trip and away from my books) with Davis going over options. It's also a fact that Davis and his entire cabinet (with one vote against--that being Reagan, the postmaster general and a pretty smart guy) voted in favor of the move into Pennsylvania. These were not shy men, nor men of limited intelligence, but rather men of considerable experience, some of whom had vested interests in the West. I don't think Lee pulled a fast one.
> >>
> >> When you consider the options carefully, sending troops west was not a good idea. I have explained why before and would be happy to do so again after this trip. Sending Lee and troops that way would have been a lot better, but then who would replace Lee. I think the fundamental problem at that point in the war was that the Confederacy lacked sufficient competent top-level commanders. This was less a troop-strength problem than a find-a-good-aggressive-commander problem.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> George
> >> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >>
> >> On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:33 PM, John Grim wrote:
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> Esteemed Members
> >>>
> >>> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> >>> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to take
> >>> the war away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted and
> >>> that troops might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be
> >>> political advantage to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being successful
> >>> east of Harrisburg with the river at his back and having to contend with
> >>> Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and its forts as well as the various
> >>> units of the Union army gathering around him. Yes, militia units were not
> >>> regulars but they can picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and generally
> >>> get in the way. Lee's communications and supply lines would be extended
> >>> further and further and he would be further away from the protection of the
> >>> mountains and their passes. As it was it took him 10 days to get back to
> >>> Virginia from Gettysburg. He may have been able to live off the land near
> >>> Harrisburg but where would his munitions and replacements come from?? How
> >>> long could he stay away from Richmond with only Corse and Jenkins covering
> >>> that area? I just don't see it but I am willing to consider other
> >>> opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for broke. He had limited goals
> >>> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> >>> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably would
> >>> not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 60
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:17:45 -0500
> From: John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
> Message-ID:
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> Esteemed Members
>
> Why did Lee not want to send troops west after his victory at
> Chancellorsville?? I know I'm being very simplistic but sometimes simple
> can be the answer. Lee was the commander of the ANV not the overall
> Confederate commander. Why would he want to diminish his own army and get
> mixed up with what was going on west of him??? Lee probably had a decent
> idea of what reinforcements might be available to him along the east coast
> and how competent some of those generals might be. Also, he had lost
> Jackson and that was a problem.
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:10 AM, George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Because it wasn't a good plan. Davis, a man from the West, no fool, and
> > quite capable of making his own decisions, saw this. I wish you could too!
> >
> > I will convince you--someday, someday, someday....
> >
> > George
> > 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >
> > On Jan 27, 2012, at 4:41 PM, John Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Of course this was after Lee shot down the initial plan to reinforce the
> > west.
> > > Regards,
> > > Jack
> > >
> > > George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > >> It's a fact that Lee spent two days in Richmond (I think it was two;
> > I'm on a trip and away from my books) with Davis going over options. It's
> > also a fact that Davis and his entire cabinet (with one vote against--that
> > being Reagan, the postmaster general and a pretty smart guy) voted in favor
> > of the move into Pennsylvania. These were not shy men, nor men of limited
> > intelligence, but rather men of considerable experience, some of whom had
> > vested interests in the West. I don't think Lee pulled a fast one.
> > >>
> > >> When you consider the options carefully, sending troops west was not a
> > good idea. I have explained why before and would be happy to do so again
> > after this trip. Sending Lee and troops that way would have been a lot
> > better, but then who would replace Lee. I think the fundamental problem at
> > that point in the war was that the Confederacy lacked sufficient competent
> > top-level commanders. This was less a troop-strength problem than a
> > find-a-good-aggressive-commander problem.
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >>
> > >> George
> > >> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> > >>
> > >> On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:33 PM, John Grim wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > >>> Esteemed Members
> > >>>
> > >>> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> > >>> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to
> > take
> > >>> the war away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted
> > and
> > >>> that troops might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be
> > >>> political advantage to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being
> > successful
> > >>> east of Harrisburg with the river at his back and having to contend
> > with
> > >>> Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and its forts as well as the
> > various
> > >>> units of the Union army gathering around him. Yes, militia units were
> > not
> > >>> regulars but they can picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and
> > generally
> > >>> get in the way. Lee's communications and supply lines would be
> > extended
> > >>> further and further and he would be further away from the protection
> > of the
> > >>> mountains and their passes. As it was it took him 10 days to get back
> > to
> > >>> Virginia from Gettysburg. He may have been able to live off the land
> > near
> > >>> Harrisburg but where would his munitions and replacements come from??
> > How
> > >>> long could he stay away from Richmond with only Corse and Jenkins
> > covering
> > >>> that area? I just don't see it but I am willing to consider other
> > >>> opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for broke. He had limited
> > goals
> > >>> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia would
> > >>> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he probably
> > would
> > >>> not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 61
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:19:47 -0500
> From: George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
> Message-ID: <86602FD0-2717-4849-81CB-0A62C707F20D at mac.com>
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> For years I wondered why the Army hated the very idea of a Marine Corps. Then I realized it's simply jealousy. If everybody could be a Marine it wouldn't be the Marines.
>
> DId you know Pershing kept a brigade of Marine long-service regulars at the port of Brest working as stevedores rather than letting them go to the front?
>
> I can't stand the AIr Force (even though it's very, very good), but I like the Army--dumb but honest.
>
> Semper fi,
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 4:05 PM, John Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Well, I learned the term" grunt" in the army while not serving in the war Dennis, Bob (nor I for that matter) do not feel us appropriate for the group.Who really wants to through those arguments again?
> > Anyway, I apologize for assuming that the term "grunt" was coined in the army.
> > But you have to agree that it sounds a bit too sophisticated for a marine.
> >
> > OK. I went a long way to get there, but it was worth it. :>)))
> >
> > My grandson is, discharged and he and his wife have just started construction of our third great grand child.
> > Thanks.
> > Jack
> > George, for the sane of full disclosure,
> > The finest CO I everservvrd under was a former Marine. He taught me as much about service as my father did about life.
> > Probably an anomaly.
> >
> >
> > George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Marines coined the term "Grunt" in the early 60s (before that conflict Dennis doesn't want us to mention) when just about everyone in the Army was mechanized. That's a fact, Jack!
> >>
> >> Is your grandson still on active duty?
> >>
> >> Semper Fi,
> >>
> >> George
> >> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >>
> >> On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Jack Lawrence wrote:
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> I thought you were a Marine?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Jack
> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Connell" <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> >>> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> >>> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:40 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>> Rookies talk about strategy, professionals talk logistics!
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> George
> >>>> A Grunt
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 9:54, dherko at kc.rr.com wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>> Lee could not have drawn the AoP away from their supply base by going North.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The Union had developed a series of permanent and temporary supply depots. I did quite a bit of study on City Point. Montgomery Meigs was the QM General, Ingals was the AoP QM chief. As the AoP moved across Virginia throughout the war, the War Department closed and opened temporary depots - city point was the best example. Permanent depots were just informed by telegraph or other means on how to push supplies and to where they would go.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The greatest example of Union Supply efficiency was the mail for Sherman's Army. Sherman had not informed the war department on the exact timeand place of where he would emerge at the end of his march. His troops received the fisrt batch of mail within the week, I think actually four days but less than seven is good enough for arguement's sake. The Union Supply system was that good.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> At Petersburg, if I was a regimental QM, I could request a set of shoes size 16EE. The request would flow up the chain of command (QM side) through the AoP to Ingals office, as the now Chief of QM for the Armies Operating around Richmond (or whatever title he had). His department was operating out of the Epp plantation house overlooking the City Point Warfs. If the clothing warehouses did not have the set of shoes, the request was passed to Meigs HQ in DC, where the request would be sent to the depot for clothing (lets say Boston for instance) if Boston Depot did not have the 16EE, they would contact the manufacturer and several sets of 16EE shoes were made, sent to Boston, forward an intermediate depot if one was assigned for low priority routine deliveries or possibly put on a ship right to City Point if the request was given a higher priority. Remember City Point was, during the seige, the busiest port in the world.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Conferderate Soldiers who for months smelled fresh bread being delivered to Union troops at Petersburg were in awe when they were proceessed through City Point as prisoners.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Again that is Lee not truly understanding what he was up against. His men were supplying themselves for two years on Union good (sadlles, blankets, weapons, clothing, wagons, cannon, anything they could pick up) the supply never stopped. The wagon train that Stuart captured had 250 brand new wagons with brand new bits, straps, harnesses, theat stuff was being crated at record pace.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As Lee was running out of serviceable horses, Meade had more than he could use. Hunt was able to create a secret wagon train filled with ammunition for a big fight. The corperate Union Army, that was prosecuting the war strategically was light years ahead of the CSA. Only Sherman's Army during his Georgia was the only Union Army that ever was completely severed fro the Union supply system.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> VR
> >>>>> Don Herko (US Army Loggie)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --- Tom Barrett <tbarrett21 at cox.net> wrote:
> >>>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> From a military standpoint, I think he wanted to draw the AoP far enough so
> >>>>>> that they were separated from their supply and support bases and far enough
> >>>>>> that they would be tired, scattered, and not able to concentrate
> >>>>>> effectively. Drawing them toward Harrisburg was a good plan, but spreading
> >>>>>> them out would have been even better, so the AoP Corps couldn't quickly
> >>>>>> support one another.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I think he figured that his forces would be more rested and better
> >>>>>> concentrated than the AoP, and that he'd pick off and defeat the Union units
> >>>>>> as they came north.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> As it turned out, Gettysburg wasn't far enough, and the AoP was well
> >>>>>> organized, well supplied, and was able to concentrate effectively. For
> >>>>>> whatever reason, Lee chose to attack anyway.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> TB
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ________________________________
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>>>> I tend to favor the notion that Harrisburg was a decoy to draw Union
> >>>>>> forces out into the open. I absolutely believe that Lee would have sent
> >>>>>> forces into the city, primarily to destroy railroad infrastructure, damage
> >>>>>> manufacturing operations, capture supplies, and generally create further
> >>>>>> panic in the north, but holding the city was never an option. I believe
> >>>>>> there was a relatively small window of opportunity for the ANV to operate
> >>>>>> in Pennsylvania.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:13 PM, keith mackenzie wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>>>>> I've read a couple of posts where the esteemed member insisted that Lee
> >>>>>> did not intend to hold Harrisburg if he did in fact assault and take it.
> >>>>>>>>> I don't know if it was more than one poster or only one several times.
> >>>>>>>>> My
> >>>>>>>>> question is, does anyone think he would have attempted to hold it? I
> >>>>>> don't think anyone has put forward that POV, but I might have missed it.
> >>>>>>>>> thanks
> >>>>>>>>> K.
> >>>>>>>>>
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> Message: 62
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:23:09 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee - Harrisburg
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> If I were Lee I would not want to give up a single man or cannon. Always
> strike with overwhelming force.
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/28/2012 10:18:12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Esteemed Members
>
> Why did Lee not want to send troops west after his victory at
> Chancellorsville?? I know I'm being very simplistic but sometimes simple
> can be the answer. Lee was the commander of the ANV not the overall
> Confederate commander. Why would he want to diminish his own army and get
> mixed up with what was going on west of him??? Lee probably had a decent
> idea of what reinforcements might be available to him along the east coast
> and how competent some of those generals might be. Also, he had lost
> Jackson and that was a problem.
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:10 AM, George Connell
> <georgeconnell at mac.com>wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Because it wasn't a good plan. Davis, a man from the West, no fool, and
> > quite capable of making his own decisions, saw this. I wish you could
> too!
> >
> > I will convince you--someday, someday, someday....
> >
> > George
> > 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >
> > On Jan 27, 2012, at 4:41 PM, John Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Of course this was after Lee shot down the initial plan to reinforce
> the
> > west.
> > > Regards,
> > > Jack
> > >
> > > George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > >> It's a fact that Lee spent two days in Richmond (I think it was two;
> > I'm on a trip and away from my books) with Davis going over options. It's
> > also a fact that Davis and his entire cabinet (with one vote
> against--that
> > being Reagan, the postmaster general and a pretty smart guy) voted in
> favor
> > of the move into Pennsylvania. These were not shy men, nor men of limited
> > intelligence, but rather men of considerable experience, some of whom
> had
> > vested interests in the West. I don't think Lee pulled a fast one.
> > >>
> > >> When you consider the options carefully, sending troops west was not a
> > good idea. I have explained why before and would be happy to do so again
> > after this trip. Sending Lee and troops that way would have been a lot
> > better, but then who would replace Lee. I think the fundamental problem
> at
> > that point in the war was that the Confederacy lacked sufficient
> competent
> > top-level commanders. This was less a troop-strength problem than a
> > find-a-good-aggressive-commander problem.
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >>
> > >> George
> > >> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> > >>
> > >> On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:33 PM, John Grim wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > >>> Esteemed Members
> > >>>
> > >>> Most of us know the usual facts of Lee's advance in June towards
> > >>> Harrisburg. I subscribe to the side that believes Lee went north to
> > take
> > >>> the war away from Virginia so crops could be harvested and replanted
> > and
> > >>> that troops might be drawn away from Grant and that there might be
> > >>> political advantage to be gained. I cannot picture Lee being
> > successful
> > >>> east of Harrisburg with the river at his back and having to contend
> > with
> > >>> Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and its forts as well as the
> > various
> > >>> units of the Union army gathering around him. Yes, militia units
> were
> > not
> > >>> regulars but they can picket railroads, bridges, guard POW's and
> > generally
> > >>> get in the way. Lee's communications and supply lines would be
> > extended
> > >>> further and further and he would be further away from the protection
> > of the
> > >>> mountains and their passes. As it was it took him 10 days to get
> back
> > to
> > >>> Virginia from Gettysburg. He may have been able to live off the land
> > near
> > >>> Harrisburg but where would his munitions and replacements come from??
> > How
> > >>> long could he stay away from Richmond with only Corse and Jenkins
> > covering
> > >>> that area? I just don't see it but I am willing to consider other
> > >>> opinions. Lee's operation was not a go for broke. He had limited
> > goals
> > >>> and limited expectations. Getting his wounded back to Virginia
> would
> > >>> probably have been impossible from east of Harrisburg and he
> probably
> > would
> > >>> not have gotten his Gettysburg wounded back.
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> Message: 63
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:24:52 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
> Message-ID: <354a2.53fcdfa8.3c556d44 at aol.com>
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>
> Don't come to DC and call the soldiers dumb but honest. There's soldiers
> all over the place around you. In no way would I guarantee your survival.
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/28/2012 10:20:17 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> georgeconnell at mac.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> For years I wondered why the Army hated the very idea of a Marine Corps.
> Then I realized it's simply jealousy. If everybody could be a Marine it
> wouldn't be the Marines.
>
> DId you know Pershing kept a brigade of Marine long-service regulars at
> the port of Brest working as stevedores rather than letting them go to the
> front?
>
> I can't stand the AIr Force (even though it's very, very good), but I like
> the Army--dumb but honest.
>
> Semper fi,
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 4:05 PM, John Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Well, I learned the term" grunt" in the army while not serving in the
> war Dennis, Bob (nor I for that matter) do not feel us appropriate for the
> group.Who really wants to through those arguments again?
> > Anyway, I apologize for assuming that the term "grunt" was coined in the
> army.
> > But you have to agree that it sounds a bit too sophisticated for a
> marine.
> >
> > OK. I went a long way to get there, but it was worth it. :>)))
> >
> > My grandson is, discharged and he and his wife have just started
> construction of our third great grand child.
> > Thanks.
> > Jack
> > George, for the sane of full disclosure,
> > The finest CO I everservvrd under was a former Marine. He taught me as
> much about service as my father did about life.
> > Probably an anomaly.
> >
> >
> > George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> Marines coined the term "Grunt" in the early 60s (before that conflict
> Dennis doesn't want us to mention) when just about everyone in the Army was
> mechanized. That's a fact, Jack!
> >>
> >> Is your grandson still on active duty?
> >>
> >> Semper Fi,
> >>
> >> George
> >> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >>
> >> On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Jack Lawrence wrote:
> >>
> >>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>> I thought you were a Marine?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Jack
> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Connell"
> <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> >>> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> >>> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:40 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: GDG- A little clarification please.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>> Rookies talk about strategy, professionals talk logistics!
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> George
> >>>> A Grunt
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 9:54, dherko at kc.rr.com wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>> Lee could not have drawn the AoP away from their supply base by
> going North.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The Union had developed a series of permanent and temporary supply
> depots. I did quite a bit of study on City Point. Montgomery Meigs was the
> QM General, Ingals was the AoP QM chief. As the AoP moved across Virginia
> throughout the war, the War Department closed and opened temporary depots
> - city point was the best example. Permanent depots were just informed by
> telegraph or other means on how to push supplies and to where they would go.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The greatest example of Union Supply efficiency was the mail for
> Sherman's Army. Sherman had not informed the war department on the exact
> timeand place of where he would emerge at the end of his march. His troops
> received the fisrt batch of mail within the week, I think actually four days
> but less than seven is good enough for arguement's sake. The Union Supply
> system was that good.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> At Petersburg, if I was a regimental QM, I could request a set of
> shoes size 16EE. The request would flow up the chain of command (QM side)
> through the AoP to Ingals office, as the now Chief of QM for the Armies
> Operating around Richmond (or whatever title he had). His department was
> operating out of the Epp plantation house overlooking the City Point Warfs. If
> the clothing warehouses did not have the set of shoes, the request was
> passed to Meigs HQ in DC, where the request would be sent to the depot for
> clothing (lets say Boston for instance) if Boston Depot did not have the 16EE,
> they would contact the manufacturer and several sets of 16EE shoes were
> made, sent to Boston, forward an intermediate depot if one was assigned for low
> priority routine deliveries or possibly put on a ship right to City Point
> if the request was given a higher priority. Remember City Point was, during
> the seige, the busiest port in the world.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Conferderate Soldiers who for months smelled fresh bread being
> delivered to Union troops at Petersburg were in awe when they were proceessed
> through City Point as prisoners.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Again that is Lee not truly understanding what he was up against.
> His men were supplying themselves for two years on Union good (sadlles,
> blankets, weapons, clothing, wagons, cannon, anything they could pick up) the
> supply never stopped. The wagon train that Stuart captured had 250 brand
> new wagons with brand new bits, straps, harnesses, theat stuff was being
> crated at record pace.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As Lee was running out of serviceable horses, Meade had more than he
> could use. Hunt was able to create a secret wagon train filled with
> ammunition for a big fight. The corperate Union Army, that was prosecuting the
> war strategically was light years ahead of the CSA. Only Sherman's Army
> during his Georgia was the only Union Army that ever was completely severed
> fro the Union supply system.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> VR
> >>>>> Don Herko (US Army Loggie)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --- Tom Barrett <tbarrett21 at cox.net> wrote:
> >>>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> From a military standpoint, I think he wanted to draw the AoP far
> enough so
> >>>>>> that they were separated from their supply and support bases and
> far enough
> >>>>>> that they would be tired, scattered, and not able to concentrate
> >>>>>> effectively. Drawing them toward Harrisburg was a good plan, but
> spreading
> >>>>>> them out would have been even better, so the AoP Corps couldn't
> quickly
> >>>>>> support one another.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I think he figured that his forces would be more rested and better
> >>>>>> concentrated than the AoP, and that he'd pick off and defeat the
> Union units
> >>>>>> as they came north.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> As it turned out, Gettysburg wasn't far enough, and the AoP was
> well
> >>>>>> organized, well supplied, and was able to concentrate effectively.
> For
> >>>>>> whatever reason, Lee chose to attack anyway.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> TB
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ________________________________
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>>>> I tend to favor the notion that Harrisburg was a decoy to draw
> Union
> >>>>>> forces out into the open. I absolutely believe that Lee would have
> sent
> >>>>>> forces into the city, primarily to destroy railroad
> infrastructure, damage
> >>>>>> manufacturing operations, capture supplies, and generally create
> further
> >>>>>> panic in the north, but holding the city was never an option. I
> believe
> >>>>>> there was a relatively small window of opportunity for the ANV to
> operate
> >>>>>> in Pennsylvania.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:13 PM, keith mackenzie wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>>>>>>>> I've read a couple of posts where the esteemed member insisted
> that Lee
> >>>>>> did not intend to hold Harrisburg if he did in fact assault and
> take it.
> >>>>>>>>> I don't know if it was more than one poster or only one several
> times.
> >>>>>>>>> My
> >>>>>>>>> question is, does anyone think he would have attempted to hold
> it? I
> >>>>>> don't think anyone has put forward that POV, but I might have
> missed it.
> >>>>>>>>> thanks
> >>>>>>>>> K.
> >>>>>>>>>
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> Message: 64
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:31:45 -0600
> From: Dennis Lawrence <denlaw at gojade.org>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: GDG- 166 unsnipped lines
> Message-ID: <20120128073153.1755A2AF at dm0202.mta.everyone.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
> I want to remind everyone how important it is to snip the unmet
> needed lines when he replied to a posting. This posting had 166
> lines. It would only take a few of these to send out a digest.
>
> Take Care
>
> Dennis
>
> 09:40 PM 1/27/2012, you wrote:
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >No, I was talking about the group.
> >Regards.
> >Jack
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 65
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:34:13 -0600
> From: Dennis Lawrence <denlaw at gojade.org>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: GDG- hook - service rivalry
> Message-ID: <20120128073421.1755A342 at dm0202.mta.everyone.net>
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>
>
> >For years I wondered why the Army hated the very
>
> Hello,
>
> Let's not get into service rivalry here.
>
> Take Care
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 66
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:36:36 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: GDG- Supoplying the armies
> Message-ID: <3593f.602ce07e.3c557004 at aol.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> Andy brought up the procedures of supplying the armies.
>
> At the risk of boring people with another DC story there is something
> mildly weird in Alexandria. Along the Potomac is a small ridge maybe 15-20
> feet high. I think it is millions of years old alluvial silt deposits from
> the Potomac flooding when the water level was higher.
>
> On Wilkes St there is a tunnel through it where the other streets go over
> it. Always wondered about it then I found out that before the CW the
> tracks of the O&A RR ran through the tunnel to docks on the Potomac. During the
> war vessels would come up and offload directly into the freight cars and
> the stuff shipped directly out to the Union armies. Then there were some
> hospital cars that would be pushed through the tunnels, placed onto barges
> where steam tugs would move them up to places like Balt or Philly.
>
> How much H Haupt had to do with this I don't know. They would load
> freight cars onto the barges- they would be loaded perpendicular to the hull of
> the barge. From there they would be sent to Fredericksburg or City Point
> where they would be put back on the tracks.
>
> By @ 1863 the tracks of the B&O were extended across the Potomac into
> Alexandria and connected with the O&A.
>
> Hope you find this story interesting.
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 67
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:44:18 -0500
> From: George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- hook - service rivalry
> Message-ID: <74ED15B8-8CA8-43B1-B9ED-C9739E4F6602 at mac.com>
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>
> Oops. Sorry! (Even though 'rivalry' wrongly suggests competition between roughly equal entities)
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 28, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Dennis Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >
> >> For years I wondered why the Army hated the very
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Let's not get into service rivalry here.
> >
> > Take Care
> >
> > Dennis
> >
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>
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> Message: 68
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:46:24 -0500
> From: George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Supoplying the armies
> Message-ID: <E7A63897-47C0-403A-B5E5-9D105D44C564 at mac.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Very interesting. Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 28, 2012, at 10:36 AM, CWMHTours at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Andy brought up the procedures of supplying the armies.
> >
> > At the risk of boring people with another DC story there is something
> > mildly weird in Alexandria. Along the Potomac is a small ridge maybe 15-20
> > feet high. I think it is millions of years old alluvial silt deposits from
> > the Potomac flooding when the water level was higher.
> >
> > On Wilkes St there is a tunnel through it where the other streets go over
> > it. Always wondered about it then I found out that before the CW the
> > tracks of the O&A RR ran through the tunnel to docks on the Potomac. During the
> > war vessels would come up and offload directly into the freight cars and
> > the stuff shipped directly out to the Union armies. Then there were some
> > hospital cars that would be pushed through the tunnels, placed onto barges
> > where steam tugs would move them up to places like Balt or Philly.
> >
> > How much H Haupt had to do with this I don't know. They would load
> > freight cars onto the barges- they would be loaded perpendicular to the hull of
> > the barge. From there they would be sent to Fredericksburg or City Point
> > where they would be put back on the tracks.
> >
> > By @ 1863 the tracks of the B&O were extended across the Potomac into
> > Alexandria and connected with the O&A.
> >
> > Hope you find this story interesting.
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
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> Message: 69
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:03:50 -0500
> From: John Grim <jgrim1941 at gmail.com>
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Supoplying the armies
> Message-ID:
> <CAHUpNb2QNw-bRf6Aoq=Y9uLGZEZdyptqs8zEiS+X6C6aJNxMVA at mail.gmail.com>
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>
> Peter
>
> When I first moved to Alexandria around 1976 I lived on Wilkes anduse to
> walk thru that tunnel almost every day when going to work at Chadwick's on
> the waterfront. My understanding is that they used smaller engines to go
> from the wharves thru the tunnel. They probably connected to the other
> railroads near where the Masonic Temple is. When I owned a house on
> Walnut St (west end) it was very near the area where many railroad workers
> lived that loaded and unloaded goods from western virginia and there were
> still two families on Walnut that were engineers on the 0range & Alexandria
> routes and whose fathers had also been engineers on those routes.
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:46 AM, George Connell <georgeconnell at mac.com>wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Very interesting. Thank you.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > George
> > 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >
> > On Jan 28, 2012, at 10:36 AM, CWMHTours at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Andy brought up the procedures of supplying the armies.
> > >
> > > At the risk of boring people with another DC story there is something
> > > mildly weird in Alexandria. Along the Potomac is a small ridge maybe
> > 15-20
> > > feet high. I think it is millions of years old alluvial silt deposits
> > from
> > > the Potomac flooding when the water level was higher.
> > >
> > > On Wilkes St there is a tunnel through it where the other streets go
> > over
> > > it. Always wondered about it then I found out that before the CW the
> > > tracks of the O&A RR ran through the tunnel to docks on the Potomac.
> > During the
> > > war vessels would come up and offload directly into the freight cars and
> > > the stuff shipped directly out to the Union armies. Then there were
> > some
> > > hospital cars that would be pushed through the tunnels, placed onto
> > barges
> > > where steam tugs would move them up to places like Balt or Philly.
> > >
> > > How much H Haupt had to do with this I don't know. They would load
> > > freight cars onto the barges- they would be loaded perpendicular to the
> > hull of
> > > the barge. From there they would be sent to Fredericksburg or City Point
> > > where they would be put back on the tracks.
> > >
> > > By @ 1863 the tracks of the B&O were extended across the Potomac into
> > > Alexandria and connected with the O&A.
> > >
> > > Hope you find this story interesting.
> > >
> > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > Peter
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> Message: 70
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:16:37 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- Supoplying the armies
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> THNX George-
>
> I see you don't despair of Jack and still have hope.
>
> You hope to remember that in Jack's world the rivers run backwards?
>
> ;-{) !!!
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/28/2012 10:46:50 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> georgeconnell at mac.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Very interesting. Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> George
> 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
>
> On Jan 28, 2012, at 10:36 AM, CWMHTours at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Andy brought up the procedures of supplying the armies.
> >
> > At the risk of boring people with another DC story there is something
> > mildly weird in Alexandria. Along the Potomac is a small ridge maybe
> 15-20
> > feet high. I think it is millions of years old alluvial silt deposits
> from
> > the Potomac flooding when the water level was higher.
> >
> > On Wilkes St there is a tunnel through it where the other streets go
> over
> > it. Always wondered about it then I found out that before the CW the
> > tracks of the O&A RR ran through the tunnel to docks on the Potomac.
> During the
> > war vessels would come up and offload directly into the freight cars
> and
> > the stuff shipped directly out to the Union armies. Then there were
> some
> > hospital cars that would be pushed through the tunnels, placed onto
> barges
> > where steam tugs would move them up to places like Balt or Philly.
> >
> > How much H Haupt had to do with this I don't know. They would load
> > freight cars onto the barges- they would be loaded perpendicular to the
> hull of
> > the barge. From there they would be sent to Fredericksburg or City
> Point
> > where they would be put back on the tracks.
> >
> > By @ 1863 the tracks of the B&O were extended across the Potomac into
> > Alexandria and connected with the O&A.
> >
> > Hope you find this story interesting.
> >
> > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
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> Message: 71
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:11 -0500 (EST)
> From: CWMHTours at aol.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- Supoplying the armies
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> Yes John-
>
> I have submitted a CW map of DC and the forts to the gdg. If you see
> where the traacks run they O&A tracks ran in almost a straight line down Wilkes
> St.
>
> I wondered how they got the locos through the tunnel. It does seem awful
> low.
>
> A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/28/2012 11:04:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> Peter
>
> When I first moved to Alexandria around 1976 I lived on Wilkes anduse to
> walk thru that tunnel almost every day when going to work at Chadwick's on
> the waterfront. My understanding is that they used smaller engines to go
> from the wharves thru the tunnel. They probably connected to the other
> railroads near where the Masonic Temple is. When I owned a house on
> Walnut St (west end) it was very near the area where many railroad workers
> lived that loaded and unloaded goods from western virginia and there were
> still two families on Walnut that were engineers on the 0range &
> Alexandria
> routes and whose fathers had also been engineers on those routes.
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:46 AM, George Connell
> <georgeconnell at mac.com>wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > Very interesting. Thank you.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > George
> > 26?11'56"N 81?48'19W"
> >
> > On Jan 28, 2012, at 10:36 AM, CWMHTours at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > Andy brought up the procedures of supplying the armies.
> > >
> > > At the risk of boring people with another DC story there is something
> > > mildly weird in Alexandria. Along the Potomac is a small ridge maybe
> > 15-20
> > > feet high. I think it is millions of years old alluvial silt deposits
> > from
> > > the Potomac flooding when the water level was higher.
> > >
> > > On Wilkes St there is a tunnel through it where the other streets go
> > over
> > > it. Always wondered about it then I found out that before the CW the
> > > tracks of the O&A RR ran through the tunnel to docks on the Potomac.
> > During the
> > > war vessels would come up and offload directly into the freight cars
> and
> > > the stuff shipped directly out to the Union armies. Then there were
> > some
> > > hospital cars that would be pushed through the tunnels, placed onto
> > barges
> > > where steam tugs would move them up to places like Balt or Philly.
> > >
> > > How much H Haupt had to do with this I don't know. They would load
> > > freight cars onto the barges- they would be loaded perpendicular to
> the
> > hull of
> > > the barge. From there they would be sent to Fredericksburg or City
> Point
> > > where they would be put back on the tracks.
> > >
> > > By @ 1863 the tracks of the B&O were extended across the Potomac into
> > > Alexandria and connected with the O&A.
> > >
> > > Hope you find this story interesting.
> > >
> > > A Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > > Peter
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