Lincoln had looked at the numbers and come to a conclusion.Īnd he was dead wrong, because these were just numbers. He thought that if Meade had pressed harder, the war would have been over, then and there. This is because in the coming days and weeks he was obsessed with the idea that Meade should be pursuing and crushing Lee in one final battle. But that is where my empathy with President Lincoln ends. After all the heartbreak, the soul-crushing weight and ache of the preceding two years, finally it seemed like things were coming together. Lee was defeated and retreating and that Vicksburg had fallen, and perhaps as many as 30,000 rebel soldiers had surrendered. I have no idea how the man could have been sober, because all in one day, on the biggest day of celebration of our country, he got word that Robert E.
Now the weekend after July Fourth 1863 must have been a banger. So I am going to argue with a man who has been dead for 148 years.
Of course, being an infantryman, I have absolutely no interest in a fair fight. I am going to pick a fight and dispute one prominent man's opinion about what should have happened after the battle. But now, in the penultimate entry for this campaign, I am going to break my own rule. I wanted to give you an account of those times without diving too deeply into distractions. Thus far I have avoided some of the most well-known disputes surrounding the campaign and battle of Gettysburg. But, if you have the right mind set, that part can be entertaining as well. It is also what can make history contentious. This, however, is what makes working in history fun. Deciphering and unraveling the sometimes chaotic and often contradictory accounts of the men who were there is no small chore.
Writing about the Civil War is always a challenge.
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