Plenty of Blame to Go Around Quotes

“Few people consider that something as simple as an ill-fitted horseshoe could break a horse as quickly as overburdening it or failing to provide it with adequate rest or fodder.”
― Eric J. Wittenberg, Plenty of Blame to go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

“Had Kilpatrick shown some initiative and sent a larger force in pursuit, he might have bagged the entire command while the exhausted column was strung out across the Pennsylvania country side. Stuart was fortunate his adversary was not determined to fight a decisive battle with him.”
― Eric J. Wittenberg, Plenty of Blame to go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

“The misinterpretation of intelligence was nothing new for Alfred Pleasonton. Known universally as a toady whose sights seemed eternally fixed on self-promotion, one of Pleasonton’s many weaknesses was gathering and qualifying intelligence on the enemy’s movements and intentions.”
― Eric J. Wittenberg, Plenty of Blame to go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

“firing weapon had a devastating effect on the Southerners.18 The 5th Michigan’s Pvt. William H. Rockwell wrote to his wife a few weeks after the battle about the weapon’s effect. “We are put in all of the worst places on account of [the] seven shooters,” he boasted. “The rebs call us the seven devils for they say we can load in the morning and fight all day. If they find the 5th [Michigan] is after them they skedaddle.”
― Eric J. Wittenberg, Plenty of Blame to go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

“What we do know for certain is that he made up his mind to take the 125 wagons with him into Pennsylvania. The decision triggered a controversy that has raged for more than 140 years.”
― Eric J. Wittenberg, Plenty of Blame to go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg