Post by logan on Apr 18, 2023 9:02:58 GMT -6
This is a book I purchased several years ago, as the concept of a ‘silent mutiny’ was new to me, but I recognised the meaning, by the fact that it was suggested surprisingly that the officers in command of the mounted native troops of the senior officer I study, quietly abandoned him in the later stages of Isandhlwana.
This would’ve been more shocking, if I hadn’t already been aware of how my fellow enthusiasts lacked any interest in defending him, quite happy to use any means to discredit him.
This book ‘Silent Mutiny At Gettysburg’ doesn’t appear to have many good reviews, in the blurb on the back page, it has this sentence -
‘Once the battle commenced it was not fought effectively by ANV (Army Of Northern Virginia?) for a myriad of reasons none being too mysterious other than very bad personal decisions made by General Lee and a silent mutiny led by his subordinate generals who thwarted much of his strategic commands’
Now I know a little bit about the ACW, more keenly Gettysburg, but can anyone expand on who these subordinate generals were, though I do have some idea, but not yet read the book itself.
ADDITIONALLY as an aside rather than starting another thread - could Reno and Benteen’s inaction to go to Custer’s aid, only spurred on by Weir’s proactive action, be termed as bordering on such a ‘silent mutiny’ more than any disobeying of orders, as it has always bugged me that their lacklustre efforts to support their senior commander was of a greater charge than the latter ?
This would’ve been more shocking, if I hadn’t already been aware of how my fellow enthusiasts lacked any interest in defending him, quite happy to use any means to discredit him.
This book ‘Silent Mutiny At Gettysburg’ doesn’t appear to have many good reviews, in the blurb on the back page, it has this sentence -
‘Once the battle commenced it was not fought effectively by ANV (Army Of Northern Virginia?) for a myriad of reasons none being too mysterious other than very bad personal decisions made by General Lee and a silent mutiny led by his subordinate generals who thwarted much of his strategic commands’
Now I know a little bit about the ACW, more keenly Gettysburg, but can anyone expand on who these subordinate generals were, though I do have some idea, but not yet read the book itself.
ADDITIONALLY as an aside rather than starting another thread - could Reno and Benteen’s inaction to go to Custer’s aid, only spurred on by Weir’s proactive action, be termed as bordering on such a ‘silent mutiny’ more than any disobeying of orders, as it has always bugged me that their lacklustre efforts to support their senior commander was of a greater charge than the latter ?