After disobeying Robert E. Lee's orders to avoid a general engagement at Gettysburg, Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell received an order to 'press those people.
Throughout the Gettysburg campaign Lee issued vague orders that his
Gettysburg national Battlefield from Confederate Lines near General Robert E.
History has come to many obscure places, has stayed awhile and, after its
to Turtledove with Robert E. Lee advancing up to Pennsylvania and winning the decisive victory in an early version of the Battle of Gettysburg.
The cause of his grief was Robert E. Lee, who had just issued a confusing order that forced Ewell to reconsider whether he should carry out anĀ ...
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By the time the dawn of 2 July reached Gettysburg, it was clear that Lee's plans had gone wrong. One of his last orders of the previous day had been to Lieutenant General
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General Lee ordered his reconnoitring officer to lead the troops of the First Corps and conduct them
At the Battle of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee made a mistake that doomed the hopes of the Confederate States of America to compel the UnitedĀ ...