General Longstreet begged General Lee not to make that attack on the center. Longstreet was the scapegoat because nobody could bring themselves to blame the General of the Army. Ironic that history choose someone else to blame for that day even though Lee was a big enough man to say out loud that it was all his fault.
As for the north, Meade's great contribution to the battle was that he didn't allow his own ego to get in his or his generals way. John Reynolds and Joshua Chamberlin saved the Union at Gettysburg.
"You cannot invade mainland America. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass"
~Admiral Yamamoto~
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson~
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