Longstreet, Remembering Gettysburg

General [Wishbone] Longstreet

Gazing pensively toward the horizon,

Remembering that day - 

July 3, 1863

When he told General Lee, as they stood on Seminary Ridge

at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,

Facing an impossible situation,

'It is my opinion that no 15,000 men ever arrayed for battle can take that position! '

and even now,

as he rests in history,

we hear him quietly whisper,

'Told you so.
Just sayin' '

James Longstreet c.1867
National Archives

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