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• Despite discretionary orders from Robert E . Lee to take the heights " if practicable, " Richard Ewell chose not to attack.
• He sent discretionary orders to Ewell that Cemetery Hill be taken " if practicable . " Historian James M . McPherson wrote, " Had Jackson still lived, he undoubtedly would have found it practicable.
• Discretionary orders were customary for General Lee because Jackson and James Longstreet, his other principal subordinate, usually reacted to them very well and could use their initiative to respond to conditions and achieve the desired results.
• Other historians have noted that Lee, as the overall commanding general who issued discretionary orders to Ewell and then continued the battle for another two days, bears the final responsibility for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg.
• General Washington issued a discretionary order to General Nathanael Greene to abandon the fort and remove its garrison & ndash; then numbered at 1, 200 men but later to grow to 3, 000 & ndash; to New Jersey.
• As the main body of the Confederate Army was passing into Maryland and Pennsylvania, Stuart persuaded Lee to give him discretionary orders to take three brigades of his cavalry through and around the Union Army in order to gather supplies and intelligence and to damage the Army of the Potomac's communications and supply lines.
• With a defeated and disorganized Union Army trying to regroup on high ground near town and vulnerable, Lee sent one of his new corps commanders, Richard S . Ewell, discretionary orders that the heights ( Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill ) be taken " if practicable . " Without Jackson's intuitive grasp of Lee's orders or the instinct to take advantage of sudden tactical opportunities, Ewell chose not to attempt the assault, and this failure is considered by historians to be the greatest missed opportunity of the battle.