Which of these Factors was not a key cause of the Confedrate loss at Gettysburg?
a. Malfunctions in Confederate artillery
b. breakdown in the Confederate chain of command
c. breakdown in the confederate soliders in exceeding orders.
d. failure to remove fences that blocked the confederate advance
help me out please.
The question isn’t very well worded. The answer your looking for is probably “c”…no one on the Confederate side really “exceeded orders” on the crucial Third Day, though that was certainly the case earlier on, with Heth blundering into a general engagement before either side was really ready ; and Stuart’s unaccountable absence.
To say the Confederate artillery “malfunctioned” is misleading. It was ineffective, certainly, but there was nothing wrong with the guns, they were just poorly positioned and poorly sight. In short, the Confederate gunners largely overshot their targets, making a lot of noise but doing very little damage.
The fences were certainly a factor in the failure of Pickett’s assault on Day Three, and the poorly coordinated timing of Confederate movements could be called a “breakdown in the chain of command”.
Cheers
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