| Show It A Kf $ r '“ 'Lh’Sftj' Be 33 Ike Monty Rekindle the Fire 2 More ' 5 ' ' Second-Gucsse- ’ ’ t (Edltor’i Note—The lollowtnc ntarr ui Aoocialted Preu u writer who hat been ttudent o 1 the Civil V r for more than 20 yeort and It a charter member of the Civil War Hound Table of New York t -- own view In any case the mere calling of the council and the w o r d i n g of the propositions placed before It betray Indecision not conducive to strong leadership There is an explanation on Meade’s behalf: he had been in command of the Army only four days and he was fighting the battle by ear More fire against Meade arose Chiefly they center on a from his conduct of the Army Lee’s tortuous retreat meeting- - with his corps com- during from Gettsburg to the Pdtomac manders on the night of July 2 River: Meade went forward cauat which he put up to' them the tiously ' rt question whether the Army "( should stand and fight or reEVERY TIME Lee bristled treat The decisloh was to stand Meade drew off His policy and fight on the defensive but seemed to be to avoid ljattle if the record Is not clear whether possible as he tried to herd "the it was in accord with Meade’s enemy from our soil” a phrase earliest hour at which Long-- ' street could have mounted an attack There remains the question whether Longstreet’s heart was in an attack he didn’t want to make and the whole story of July Ji Is one of confusion and misunderstanding There have been criticisms of Meade’s conduct of the battle too Press Writer might-have-been- IUBjiu JuUQLiUUU II liyfi' II LI wiv J $ Map shows climactic action in battle of Gettysburg battle which stopped Gen 1863 final day of three-daE Lee’s northward drive Three-prongeattack center by Gen Pickett was criticized by England’s y JUUrn il ll s House Supr Music Company 3130 I I 11th i OALG Chair and Roclccr IN a -- asenh TFT1R & Monty i £ J — J ELECTRIC I W Starts Hont Tuesday far 4 Days Capitol Theater - Starts at 9:30 am IL Doors Open at 8 am Cook Books Free Admission ‘“'W r it Gifts f A public Service of Your TJempaper rmm I WCtl fK IE (KMDEMffl Sell®®!- I July 8 Robert against re- The armies groping for each Other like wrestlers In a fog collided accidentally at Gettys- RENTAL i l: i I The Union Army under "Fighting Joe” Hooker pursued until late June when Meade INSTRUMENTS j r George Gordon placed Hooker SCHOOL BAND tuaUMur- xMUdk be-Xo- the thought of ousting the revered Lee never entered the southern mind As for Meade— well he had won the battle and the union was in no position right then to consider displacThe ing a winning general ’ breed was too scarce ' I tf It Is safe to say that posed of vers during this period reminded him of "an old woman trying to shoo her geese across the creek" Perhaps Mr Eisenhower and Montgomery did raise a fresh point in their suggestion that from a proclamation to the Lee and Meade should have Army that aroused the Ire of been "sacked” It Is easily dis President Abraham Lincoln Later at the White House Lincoln told Meade that the maneu- A 4 J 18-B- A S' End Another ‘Battle of rs By Robert D Price jTaII NEW YORK May the fuss that was stirred up you’d think President Dwight D Eisenhower and Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Montgomery had said something new and startling last weekend when they criticised the tactics at the Civil War battle of Gettysburg Tjiey didn't It never has been a secret that Gettysburg was far from a YrfbdeT 6f military maneuver In misdeed the multiplicity s takes made there the make One reason why the battle has become such a fascinating study THE ARGUMENTS " about Gettysburg were under way the arrpie left the field They haye been going on ever RinceSome of them never will settled to everyone’s satisfaction but over the years a pattern and a weight of evidence has developed that is fairly- conclusive The point here is that Mr Eisenhower and Montgomery said little that had not been said before First a brief summary of the battle It was 1863 the third year of the war The Confederacy flushed with the victory of Chancellorsvllle decided to in-- “ vade the north Robert E Lee marched his divisions up the mountain-shieldeavenue of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley then spread out over Pennsyl-vanl-a striking as far as Harrisburg and York s i i fa by I Associated j? Salt Late TrISaw Sunday May 19 195T M71 Y yeesiW ) U Ti j NNTWMtlW to lijwwuM qoci Udskefts i5i Clivem Avxay Free by burg For three days they fought In the hills around the town a battle that cost 50000 casualties The Confederates were defeated but retreated with their army intact Although the Confederacy fought on until April 1865 it never again mustered strength for an offensive thrust Now consider the criticisms one by one: ©ay Albertson' s Ail persons attending may participate in the distribution of foods and gifts Each of the four days of the cooking school Albertson’s Food Stores will give 25 free baskets of food away Elsenhower-Montgomer- 3 t L The famed charge of 15 George Pickett against the Union center on the third day of battle July S 1863 was "a monstrous thing" in Montgomery’s words In 1883 the Comte de Paris writing a history long regarded as a standard work concluded that the attacking column was ‘‘doomed to certain destruction" In 1955 Clifford Dowdey one of the best of modern historians write in “the land they fought for" that Pickett’s charge was the “anticlimax of three days of blundering" - Confederates led by Gen Whirlpool Imperial 5 With r ’ 4 Instead of attacking the renter Montgomery would "have thrown a right hook around little round top” the knob of a hill at the southern end of the Union line that was Longstreet’s idea he ar gued stubbornly for it on the field and Lee overruled him Would such a stroke have succeeded Freeman’s reasearchers found that two Union brigades —certainly enough to hold the attackers until reinforcements could arrive— were posted “on the very ground" across which Longstreet expected to operate - There is a further question whether roads were available to accommodate such a movement as Longstreet contemplated 6 Everything teemed "to break to pieces” as Mr Elsenhower put it "on the southern Ride” freenian found “lack of coordination in attack" on both the second and third day of bat- tle and be spoke of "Confeder- - The absence of Confederate cavalry under Jeb Stuart hurt the the Confederate cause role of Stuart’s cavalry in the campaign has long been a subject of sharp debate (He was off on a characteristic raiding expedition and did not arrive at Gettysburg until July 21 Lee 8 himself lamented that he fought "in the absence of correct intelligence’’— and "intelligence” in those days meant cavalry Capt John W Thomason Jr Stuart's biographer hazarded in 1929 that If Stuart had beerr with Lee "it is unlikely that the battle would have been fought at Meads scattered Gettysburg corps might well have been crushed in detail before he could concentrate his army” Far from raising new points Probers to Check 2 More Unions Chicago Tribune Service WASHINGTON May 18-- Sen ate rackets' Investigators said Saturday that they are looking into dealings between Chicagoan Nathan Shefferman and at least two other labor unions besides bave Beck's Teamsters Union Robert F Kennedy counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee told reporters his staff is the operations of Shefferman' a labor relations consultant to numerous companies Shefferman already has been linked to Beck In transactions Involving Teamsters Union funds checking on coast-to-coa- - RANGE Air Purifying Sys- In white either yellow or green with double oven rotisserle deep griddle converting into a Dutch oven tem which cuts food spoil- age and flavor tainting y i ' I ELECTRIC FREEZER "Another ate errors of overconfidence bad organization and inept leadership" Virtually every historian who has studied Gettysburg has pointed up the uncoordinated nature of the Confedheadlong against an entrenched erate assaults with Wits atposition— Gettysburg was "the worst fought of all" Lee’s bat tacking piecemeal instead of in mutual support ties fti U R P a ffliuiL Battle of Gettysburg" this cartoon was drawn by Fred O Selbel for the Richmond Times Dispatch— cartoonist’s comment from Confederacy capltaL a modern-daTitled Lee displayed poor generalThe late Douglas South-al- j ship Freeman acknowledged peer of Lee biographers wrote In 1914 that "next to Malvern Hill" -- where Lee threw his divisions 3 Meade should have crushed the defeated Confederate army of Northern Virginia E P Alexander chief of artillery In James Longstreet’s 1st Corps dealt lengthily with that ques tidn in his “Military Memoirs of a Confederate” published in - 1907 “It must ever be held cqjossal mistake that Meade did not organize a counter stroke" after Pickett was repulsed he Raid “An advance by a single fresh corps’’— and Meade had that corps— “would have cut us in two" Among the modern school Kdnneth P Williams said in “Lincoln Finds a Gen eral” published in 1949 that “a great victory might have been won" if Meads had coun terattacked on July 3 FOUR-STA- REFRIGERATORfits slti KENMORI RCA of criticism Mr Eisenhower and Montgomery did not by any means touch on all that had been raised earlier For exam-pl- e there Is the matter of Culp’s Hill Did the Indecision of Gen Richard Ewell on the evening of July 1 seal the defeat of Lee? You can get yourself a fine argument on that Presented by n m FLINT presented by DISTRIBUTING SEARS CO THE SITUATION was that Ewell’s troops had rocketed victoriously through Gettysburg until they hit rocky Culp’s Hill Lee newly arrived on the field told Ewell to attack "If practicable” Ewell was new to corps command He pondered wavered decided the hour was too late If he had sent his troops forward the argument goes he would have swept the thin line of blue defenders from the eml nence and Installed the Confederacy on a height that would have made untenable the cemetery ridge fine from which the Federate fought for the next two days And how about Longstr$et’s attack of July 2? Did he delay unduly? If he had attacked in early morning as Lee had planned would he have ‘rolled up the Union left flank? 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