#29: Gettysburg Breezes

Well, all the weird weather we're having around the U.S. these days reminds me of some of the facts I accumulated in my book about how the Lord directly effected battles with his handiwork, based on Amos 4:7 "And furthermore, I withheld the rain from you while there were still three months until harvest. Then I would send rain on one city and on another city I would not send rain; One part would be rained on, while the part not rained on would dry up."
The deal at Gettysburg was this: Robert E. Lee's cannonade began at 1p.m., lasted until 3pm when the field was so full of smoke that he could not see that the artillery barrage was NOT being effective to drive the Yankees from the Angle of the stone wall, because it was a windless July afternoon.
However, just at 3pm when Pickett's Charge stepped out of the woods for the attack, a breeze blew up the Emmitsburg Road through the perfect wind tunnel formed by Cemetery and Seminary Ridges where the Union and Confederate positions were, respectively, and cleared the field of smoke to make a perfect field of fire for Union artillery and riflemen to decimate the charge. (1)
The Confederate High Water Mark was a direct result of wind! I guess the God of Battles was NOT on Bobby Lee's side just then...hunh?!! Oh, one other Christian, George Gordon Meade, (2)was in command of the Union forces at Gettysburg, so the Lord must have been listening to his prayers in His Own Providence that day, all things being equal, which they never are!
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Information from:
(1) D. Scott Hartwig, “It Struck Horror to Us All”. Gettysburg Magazine, January 1991, p. 96.
(2) Meade, George. The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade: Major-General United States Army. 2 volumes. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1913, 1:276-277 & 2:302-303.