Rebecca Emmett wrote: > > Cemetery Ridge is in Gettysburg -- It was the object of the ill-fated > Pickett's Charge that essentially broke the Confederate Army. > I recently read an article by an acoustical engineer that said that part of > the problem in that battle was that the lay of the land block sound waves. > Meade & Pickett & Lee & Longstreet couldn't hear each other's battle sounds, > and lacking cell phones, Meade's (I think it was Meade) entry into the > battle came too late. By the time someone told him the battle was on, it > was lost. For a very moving description of the retreat from Gettysburg, read the pertinent sections of <<Defender of the Valley: Brig. Gen. John D. Imboden, CSA.>> The endurance of those men surpasses understanding. There were no such things as medics, field hospitals and medevac systems. -- Jim Blease mailto:leds@datasys.net Valdosta, Ga. ICQ #: 19431334