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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 12: Gettysburg. (search)
reach the battlefield before he did. The delay in getting two or three miles to the right, after the early hour Longstreet's command got near Lee's headquarters, can not be wholly laid at the door of his guide-Lee's engineer officer, Colonel S. P. Johnston. That officer states he called attention to the fact that the road they were following would pass over a hill in view of the Federal line, and pointed out a shorter route across a field screened from observation; but the corps commander preferred the road, and followed it to the top of the hill, then halted, and changed the position of his divisions in column. At that time the distance to the place Hood occupied was only a mile and a half, and could have been reached, Johnston says, in less than an hour. And, finally, if the positive assertions of Lee's staff officers can be believed-and they must be, from their well-known high charactershe disobeyed orders when he attacked with one third and not with his whole corps. Lee kn
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A review of the First two days operations at Gettysburg and a reply to General Longstreet by General Fitz. Lee. (search)
e right was General Lee's fault, since the column was moved under the special directions of Colonel Johnston, an engineer officer of the Commanding-General, and having for the time the authority of Gecontains no hint that he lost several hours by the blundering of General Lee's engineer, Colonel S. P. Johnston, the gallant engineer officer mentioned by General Longstreet, tells me that he read thees of the enemy's line, while the lieutenant-general was riding at the rear of the column. Colonel Johnston, and I state it on his authority, was ordered by General Lee to make a reconnoisance on the miles from Round Top, by the route selected for its march. After no little delay [I quote Colonel Johnston's words] the column got in motion and marched under cover of the ridge and woods until the o believe, if he intended to attack at all, such attack was to be made at an early hour. Colonel Johnston did not even know where General Iongstreet was going. He supposed he had been ordered to r