tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post5112300769728741097..comments2024-03-06T06:52:36.635-05:00Comments on The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry: Snow Day. . .John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-742452906580230862008-02-18T22:19:00.000-05:002008-02-18T22:19:00.000-05:00>I really like O.O. Howard and >think he has gotte...>I really like O.O. Howard and >think he has gotten a bad rap in >most popular studies of the war. <BR/><BR/>Hate to say it, but...Chancellorsville, anyone? "I am taking steps to meet it." (Lee's suspected flanking movement, that is). And those steps consist of...turning a couple of regiments and one battery in the direction of danger, while everyone else stays put? Tsk, tsk, tsk. <BR/><BR/>It also didn't help that he maligned both his own men and those of the I Corps at Gettysburg; that never tends to make one especially popular. And his victories at Ezra Church and Jonesboro were cakewalks: hunkering down behind trenches and letting Hood beat his brains out in vain against them. The average CW general could have done as well, and perhaps better.<BR/><BR/>But, to each his own...Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08145356307042376471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-73427720147738668412008-02-14T19:51:00.000-05:002008-02-14T19:51:00.000-05:00Very, very beautiful! I wish I had been there (bu...Very, very beautiful! I wish I had been there (bundled up quite well, ofcourse!). Thank you for these photos!<BR/><BR/>FL DeputyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com