• If you know someone who isn't getting these e-mails, please forward it to them and encourage them to register on our Gettysburg Staff Ride site.
• Our schedule for the staff ride is included below for your reference.  Monday 7 May and Friday 11 May are travel days.  Note the new addition this year of an East Cavalry Field stand led by our own "Chief of Horse" Craig Huddleston, as well as some time on the end of Day 2 for reflection in seminar groups at the National Cemetery, site of the Gettysburg Address in November of 1863.

• We'll talk a lot about understanding leader's intent. In last week's update, you may recall reading about advice given to Abraham Lincoln by the Governor of New Jersey, an Ambassador, and a Supreme Court Justice.   Many wanted to see the return of George McClellan to command of the Army of the Potomac. Read an excerpt of Lincoln's intent given to McClellan when he was last in command (November of 1862).  McClellan of course was replaced by Ambrose Burnside who commanded at Fredericksburg.  He was then replaced by Joe Hooker who commanded at Chancellorsville.
• Think about all that a bit.  How about that piece about the question of time, which cannot and must not be ignored.  If you'd like to do some research yourself, you may want to skim through the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.

We look forward to discussing all this at Gettysburg!