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* BloodBrothers: Armistead and Hancock. At their parting before the war, Armistead told Hancock with sincerity "if I ever raise a hand against you, may God strike me dead." Armistead is mortally wounded in Pickett's Charge and deeply distraught when told that Hancock has also been wounded.
* TheStrategist: Longstreet has a defensive, trench-digging campaign in mind for the Confederates' invasion into the North. Lee refuses these ideas.
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* TheStrategist: Longstreet has a defensive, trench-digging campaign in mind for the Confederates' invasion into the North. Lee refuses these ideas.
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* TheStrategist: Longstreet SwornBrothers: Armistead and Hancock. At their parting before the war, Armistead told Hancock with sincerity "if I ever raise a hand against you, may God strike me dead." Armistead is mortally wounded in Pickett's Charge and deeply distraught when told that Hancock has a defensive, trench-digging campaign in mind for the Confederates' invasion into the North. Lee refuses these ideas.also been wounded.
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* WorthyOpponent: Lee refuses to call the Union troops the enemy, calling them "those people," as he was reputed to have done historically.
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* WorthyOpponent: Lee refuses to call the Union troops the enemy, calling them "those people," as he was reputed to have done historically.historically.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: Chamberlain still hasn't figured out how best to wear his. He insists on Tom not casually calling him Lawrence, which makes sense (being a mere colonel instead of a godlike general, Chamberlain doesn't think he can get away with openly favoring a family member) but he also avoids riding his horse as much as he can because he wants to set an example to the men on the long, hot march. His part of the novel opens with him recovering from heatstroke after doing this and being scolded by Kilrain... and being scolded ''again'' when he continues to dismount.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: Chamberlain still hasn't figured out how best to wear his. He insists on Tom not casually calling him Lawrence, which makes sense (being a mere colonel instead of a godlike general, Chamberlain doesn't think he can get away with openly favoring a family member) worries more about the perception of favoritism) but he also avoids riding his horse as much as he can because he wants to set an example to the men on the long, hot march. His part of the novel opens with him recovering from heatstroke after doing this and being scolded by Kilrain... and being scolded ''again'' when he continues to dismount.
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** The portrayal of Meade as a GeneralFailure. Meade ''was'' severely reprimanded by Lincoln for failing to pursue Lee's army after the battle--however, the idea that he was so timid he was ready to withdraw on Day 1 was a slander put about by Dan Sickles in order to paint Sickles' decision to move to the Peach Orchard as the decisive move that won the battle (and deflect criticism for his reckless disobedience).
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* BigBrotherInstinct: It comes through in shades for Chamberlain towards Tom. A few moments throughout his narration he notes Tom's relative youth and goes out of his way to let him rest when he can and to keep him out of danger. In one of the moments when he can't and orders Tom to fill a hole in their line, he's later horrified he used his brother in this way and realizes that his concern for Tom's safety is a liability.
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This was factually incorrect; cavalry was absolutely used for screening and reconnaissance, and Stuart's cavalry had performed in that role from the 7 Days Battles, through Antietam, and into the Pennsylvania Campaign. Contemporary Civil War historians, such as Gary Gallagher, are in consensus about this.
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** J.E.B. Stuart was blamed for leaving Lee's army blind in enemy country as was thought accurate at the time. Although Lee did rebuke Stuart for leaving the body of the army, Southern cavalry was responsible for raiding, not reconnaissance, and some historians now consider him to have become another scapegoat for the Lost Cause.
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*** Lee ordered Stuart to attack the Federal right flank and be prepared to disrupt the defense against Pickett. Thus the famous charge was not so reckless as assumed. A pincers attack from front and rear would have disrupted the defense of the ridge and destroyed Meade's army. Averted by the Federal cavalry defeating Stuart.
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** In the years since, some military historians have questioned if losing Little Round Top would have been ''as'' disastrous for the Union as stated here because the hill would have made a poor seat for artillery (reducing its ability to disrupt the rest of the Union line), the number of Confederate troops available to hold it would probably not have been adequate, and Lee wrote of it as an obstacle rather than an objective. However, this is analysis in hindsight from the Union's perspective; the men defending it on that day certainly believed it was critical to hold at all costs.
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* ItsAllMyFault: General Lee says this repeatedly when he meets the retreating remnants of Pickett's division.
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* ItsAllMyFault: General Lee says this repeatedly when he meets the retreating remnants of Pickett's division. (In the days after the period covered by the book, Lee did offer to resign over the defeat, but it was declined.)
