Gettysburg is something of an anomaly for Lee, as he was blind throughout the first 2 days.
In every other fight of his he had fairly good intel and it always showed.
He was always very aggressive, but to force the issue like he did on 2 July, lacking a clear picture, is a big mistake.
Also on day two he never left his HQ after his morning visit with Pete, and he sent and received only one message according to his staff.
All his units were to attack as the unit on their right went in. But this broke down in Hill’s sector, with was very near to his HQ.
He always did let his subordinate commanders run their own affairs, but both Hill and Ewell were new as corps commanders, and to top that off the major rearrangements in creating new army corps many commanders of divisions and brigades were new to their post as well.
One would think that after a major shake up of the commands, Lee should have been more attentive.
