Originally Posted by jorgeI
Originally Posted by moosemike
Originally Posted by jorgeI
Originally Posted by moosemike
A most excellent book, great detail on the Stewart beat down (Stewart was over rated). That said and slightly off topic, but had Stewart gone through with his charge on the Union rear, he would have run into the massive reserves behind the Union lines and he probably would have been defeated. The loss at Gettysburg rests entirely on Lee's shoulders.
I assume you mean "Stuart"? As in James Ewell Brown Stuart?

OF course, yeah like JEB!...over rated...
We'll just have to disagree on that overrated part

He got his ASS kicked by Custer and with a vastly inferior force for starters...[/quote]

3,200 troopers vs. somewhere between 3,400-5,000 exhausted cavalrymen and their mounts who had just ridden nine days straight while raiding Maryland and Pennsylvania. Gregg's Cavalry was fresh and Custer was aggressive