"The outcome was pretty clear barring a miracle and still, he carried through." Pam, I think Lee's rigid sense of "duty" above other considerations, caused him to follow through when he would have been better advised not to act as he did. Lee's forte was active defense; letting his opponents come to his lines and suffer for it. Apparently having thought it through, he waited the fourth day for Meade to attack him on Seminary Ridge, but Meade did not take the bait. Perhaps he was more hurt and shaken than was thought by the Confederates. A concerted attack by the ANV on the fourth day, at every point, might have succeeded, but Lee could not risk his army so completely again. Stan