<< I did notice that you didn't mention Longstreet.  I have gleaned that his 
innovations in defensive warfare were influential especially the use of 
traversed trenches first developed at Fredericksburg >>


Longstreet was also one of the tacticians who understood the notion of 
strategic offensive/tactical defensive. I.e., seizing enemy territory that he 
cannot permit you to keep; therefore, he has to attack you on ground of your 
own choosing. Longstreet was desperate to avoid attacking the North positions 
at Gettysburg, understanding that it was almost the reverse situation of 
Fredericksburg. He was assailed afterward for his delays in carrying out 
Lee's orders to attack on the second day (it was politically incorrect in the 
South after the end of the war to blame Lee for anything). Longstreet also 
became a Republican after the war, which in the South was tantamount to 
blasphemy & treason.



Tom Beck


"I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I didn't realize I'd also 
see the last." - Jerry Pournelle

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