And I am certain there are others. The Gettysburg line would have fallen. The Pipe Creek line would have been solidified. An assault on a well established defensive line near Pipe Creek may have produced the same results that were produced at Gettysburg. On the Second Day.
Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.
On the Second day of Gettysburg Longstreet faced a problem in command that is not unlike officers of an earlier day and those of a later day. Sickles' advance was a mistake. It caused a still greater mistake in the ranks of the Confederate army in the progression of events. There is a moment in every battle at which the least maneuver is decisive and gives superiority. If he had not charged would he be crucified by historians and time as Ewell and Longstreet.