you can't say that Longstreet didn't properly support picket's charge because Lee sat right there on Seminary ridge watching it. He could've changed anything he wanted. Lee's orders were confusing and sometimes misinterpreted. Lee had very few staff and most of them were Lt. Colonels. He didn't send staff to ensure his orders were carried out. As for the early attack Longstreet was supposed to have failed on, did not happen. Lee's only attack order came at 11a.m. That was Early's myth. "Thomas Connelly describes how Early and Jones had falsified documents and cut deals with other authors in their effort to praise Lee and Early and to damn Longstreet".
