Again, you're right on the mark, Ms. Gayley. And that's one reason why so many historians have discounted Mosby's defense of Stuart. Mosby constructed a classic straw-man argument (that is, so many Confederate officers blamed the failure of the Gettysburg campaign squarely on Stuart), and then proceeded to emotionally and thoroughly beat the stuffing out of the straw-man. In fact, as you pointed out, the consensus in the Army of Northern Virginia was that Stuart's performance was only one factor (and possibly a minor one, at that) that played a role. Lee did the best he could with what he had, but if, perhaps, he wasn't a gentleman, trying to fight a gentleman's war, and instead turned his veteran legions loose on the farms, factories and cities of the North, his campaign might have been more effective. Of course, if he had one that, he wouldn't have been our Lee, the most beloved and respected general in American history. The Old South lost the war, but oh what a legacy they bequethed to America in the person of Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.