Well, we aint' talking civil war here yet, but he can't see it with his new designation as "Pure of Heart". So I've been chatting a wee bit in the "Heth's Initial Attack" thread over in the main Count's Tavern area. And I'm too tired to read this thread tonight to see where we left things off anyway.
However, I read the opening prologue for a book called "Retreat From Gettyburg" by Kent Masterson. Its starts recounting the aftermath of Pickett's Charge, ouch! It gives the usual figures for the number of officers killed as being reflective of the greater number of casualties, and then it descirbes the casualties and what Lee and others were seeing come back over the field from the repulsed charge. Fairly nasty stuff, and thats puttign it mildly. Approximatley 6700 total CSA casualties, over 3500 of them from Trimble's and Pettigrew's commands, Davis and Marshall's brigades lost 74%, while some inidividual companies lost over 90%. I'd previously read about how Lee had road around rallying the remants of the attack while fearing a counter attack, and the story of him taking full responsibility, but the collection of comments that are attributed to him and gathered in one spot was eye opening.