Robert E. Lee habitually issued discretionary orders with varying degrees of effectiveness. With Jackson, a man of ruthless battlefield instincts ...
too complex or simply ineffective, and his orders were too vague or discretionary.
This often resulted in Lee giving open-ended, vague orders.
9, April 1865 – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender that ended the American ...
Richard S. Ewell was a Confederate lieutenant general during the
Day One at Gettysburg: Vague Orders Have Significant Consequences.
Robert E. Lee's judgment for ordering Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett's charge.
Contrary to popular belief, however, Stuart had followed Lee's orders strictly, if not
a vague order that Jackson normally took to mean launch an all-out attack.
At the Battle of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee made a mistake that doomed the hopes of the Confederate States of America to compel the United ...