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Confederate General and Lee's right-hand man
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At Gettysburg, while others urged frontal assault, I insisted on swinging wide, using the terrain, holding the high ground at Devil’s Den and the Wheatfield to anchor our line. My corps absorbed the brunt of Sickles’ advance on July 2nd, not as passive defenders but as calibrated responders, shifting reserves with clockwork precision. Unlike many commanders who saw battle as a test of will, I treated it as engineering: calculating angles of fire, mapping fields of observation, weighing supply lines against morale. After the war, I refused to romanticize defeat, I joined the Republican Party, served as U.S. Minister to Turkey, and publicly defended Reconstruction, calling secession 'a colossal blunder.' My memoirs dissect command friction, not just with Lee, but with Hood and McLaws, exposing how miscommunication, not malice, fractured the Army of Northern Virginia. This wasn’t stubbornness; it was fidelity to logistics, geography, and consequence.
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