Jim...

It's also interesting to note that Alabama troops figured prominently in the Battle of Gettysburg by NOT being used in two cases and not beung properly supported in another: Richard E. Anderson's Division (with the Wilcox Brigade) arriving on the battlefield late on the first day and being sent into camp by Gen. Lee, instead of being put into the acton (around the time that Lee was trying to get Richard Ewell to advance on the Union position); R. E. Anderson failing to support the breakthrough of the Wilcox Brigade on the second day's assault on the center of Cemetery Ridge (causing their position to deteriorate and their part of the attack to fail); and the unexplained lateness of the Wilcox Brigade in supporting Pickett's charge on the third day (Wilcox claimed that no one gave him the order to advance. It is possible that with the Wilcox Brigade on the right flank of Pickett and Perry's Brigade on the left flank, that they were to be ordered forward shortly after Pickett advanced and timed to arrive as support for his breakthrough). There are a lot of good "what if's" in there...

John