Walter H. Taylor (1838–1916)
Auteur van Four Years with General Lee
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Fotografie: By unattributed - The Museum of the Confederacy Richmond, Virginia, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12400088
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- 1838-06-13
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- 1916-03-01
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The one battle that does get substantial treatment is Gettysburg. Taylor makes the claim that McLaws' and Hood's divisions were to have participated in the infantry assault of the third day but failed to do so. This is not something I have read elsewhere. Taylor includes the text of post- war correspondence with Longstreet regarding this matter in which Taylor asked why Hood's and McLaws' division did not advance. Longstreet wrote back that he had never received orders for them to participate in the assault. Perhaps Taylor is trying to shift blame for the events of the third day away from Lee.
Overall a valuable book for the information it contains regarding army strengths but Taylor should have included more of his personal observations of the commanders of the ANV. He seems to have realized this since thirty years later, he wrote a second memoir General Lee, 1861-1865.… (meer)