Cypress (01-14-2019)
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Cypress (01-14-2019)
Yea and you can what if forever...it didn't happen. What did happen was Lee made catastrophically bad strategic decisions and lost the war for the Confederacy. The scenario that I speculated on, what if Joe Johnston had not been wounded at second Mannassas? Is a far more plausible scenario as his strategy has a far greater probability of suceeding than Lee's. However one of Johnston's serious failure as a command general, one shared by far to many command generals of the Civil War was he was lousy at the political aspects of war. This was a major reason why he was subordinated Robert E. Lee after he recovered from his wounds. He simply could not bring himself to get along with his political superiors. It's interesting to note that Jeff Davis had as much a problem with that as Lincoln did.
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LOL I can't give an informed opinion. Military History is a vast topic and my area of study has been mostly on The World Wars, The Wars of the Roman Republic, The American Civil War, The American Revolutionary War, The Mongol Wars and The American Frontier Wars. Of those I'm the most well read on the American Frontier Wars and the Wars of the Roman Republic.
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The Michigan vs Ohio war for Toledo
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No, but I do know people who are far more learned than I am in history and political science than I am who have turned me on to a lot of great books over the years. The only Battlefield Site I've been to is Gettysburg and though I am probably the lest superstitious person you'd ever meet...I'm convinced that the place is indeed haunted. I can't put a finger on it other than during my entire visit I had this incredibly erie feeling that I wasn't alone and there was another person within site of me.
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Mott the Hoople (01-14-2019)
Mott the Hoople (01-14-2019)
The south could never have won. The North had 3 times as many people serving and one and a half times that many more who could have served. The South never had a realistic chance of winning. They could have, however, taken DC had they wanted to. IIRC one southern cavalry unit reached deep into DC and it freaked them out that they hadn't met resistance so they hauled ass fearing it was an ambush. Cannot recall if that was one of Early's or if it was JEB Stuart's that time. Been too many years since my military strategy of the Civil War class to remember every little color story.
Please if you want to talk seriously about the Civil War ok but spare me the Lost Cause Mythologies. General Washington commanded against far greater odds than Lee faced and still won. The truth is, as evidenced by how close Lincoln came to losing the election of 1864, that the Confederacy came very close to winning. Had Atlanta not fallen when it did the likelihood that Lincoln would have lost re-election would have been high. McClelland had positioned himself under such conditions that he would have been forced to negotiate terms of peace with the Confederacy that would have required recognizing the Confederacy and then the Confederacy would have won the war on the political front. That came very close to happening because the Union had no such option. They had to conquer the Confederacy militarily. Which they did but the notion that the Confederacy had no chance of winning the Civil War just doesn’t jive with the facts. They came closer than many people appreciate.
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The list is missing the battles of Tours & Poitiers (732), which saved Europe from the wretchedness of Islam.
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