Lee's biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman, wrote: "The seeds of much of the disaster at Gettysburg were sown in that instant—when Lee yielded to Longstreet and Longstreet discovered that he would."
Lees levnedsbeskriver Douglas Southall Freeman skrev: "Sæden til en stor del af katastrofen ved Gettysburg blev sået i dette øjeblik – da Lee gav efter for Longstreet, og Longstreet opdagede det."