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Article: The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership.
- Article from:
- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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This collection of essays - based on papers delivered at the 1990 Civil War conference at the Mont Alto campus of Pennsylvania State University - provides case studies of leadership in the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac on the critical first day of the battle. Alan T. Nolan leads off with "R. E. Lee and July 1 at Gettysburg," which places Lee's role on the inaugural day of fighting at Gettysburg in its larger strategic context. Lee's invasion of the north reflected a flawed "grand strategy" that ignored the defensive advantages enjoyed by the Confederacy as well as its manpower limitations. At the operational level, Lee issued ambiguous orders and ...
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