Does this map explain WHY General Lee ordered disastrous charge at Gettysburg 150 yea (1 Viewer)

[BLReed]

From the Daily Mail no less.

On the second day of fighting at Gettysburg, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee listened to scouting reports, scanned the battlefield and ordered his second-in-command, James Longstreet, to attack the Union Army's left flank.

It was a fateful decision, one that led to one of the most desperate clashes of the entire Civil War — the fight for a piece of ground called Little Round Top.

The Union's defense of the boulder-strewn promontory helped send Lee to defeat at Gettysburg, and he never again ventured into Northern territory.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351158/New-map-explain-Lees-decisions-Gettysburg-Americas-bloodiest-battle-remembered-150-years-on.html

Interactive Map. A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of Gettysburg - New technology has given us the chance to re-examine
how the Civil War battle was won and lost.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...t-the-Battle-of-Gettysburg.html#ixzz2Xe2ljlKJ

 

[Poppo]

That charge was the wrongest decision in Lee' s carrer.....Why he ordered that. I think he was a modern general on many sides( the modern use of cavalry, the dynamic use of trenches...), but he underestimate the new rifles fire power. If that charge took place in napoleonic times when rifles were not precise and slow to recharge probably he would have succedeed. I wish Longstreet was chief of the northern Virginia army instead ^&grin

And I m not sure that the civil war would have ended if Lee had won the battle...The means in men and materials of yankees were immensly superior; to me the war was lost from the beginning for the south: the new modern greedy capitalistic world had to cancel the old archaic, romantic one, and it happened in the hard way.