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re: Did the South ever really have a chance (Civil War)?
Posted on 7/18/22 at 12:08 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 7/18/22 at 12:08 pm to SaintlyTiger88
You didn't learn this at Gettysburg?
Rebels take Little Round Top, get behind Union lines and it's over. The battle and then shortly afterward, the war.
Rebels take Little Round Top, get behind Union lines and it's over. The battle and then shortly afterward, the war.
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Posted on 7/18/22 at 12:42 pm to LSUinMA
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You didn't learn this at Gettysburg?
Rebels take Little Round Top, get behind Union lines and it's over. The battle and then shortly afterward, the war.
Let's say the Confederates take LRT and force Meade to withdrawal (it most likely wouldn't have). Meade simply falls back to the prepared Pipe Creek defensive line.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 12:48 pm to LSUinMA
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Rebels take Little Round Top, get behind Union lines and it's over.
So you're alleging that one regiment (the 15th Alabama) could have taken the entire Union army from the rear if they got around the 20th Maine? Not a chance. Little Round Top was a side show compared to what was happening in the Wheatfield, Devil's Den, the Peach Orchard and Cemetery Ridge on the afternoon of July 2. Law's Alabamians and Robinson's Texans had no chance to follow up a potential capture of Little Round Top because there were no reserve units behind them to exploit such a breach. Meanwhile, there were 13,000 Federal troops in the immediate vicinity who could have launched a successful counterattack.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 12:55 pm to LSUinMA
In a war of attrition, the North would win 10x out of 10.
The South being agricultural and much lower population density, had no chance against the industrial north.
The South being agricultural and much lower population density, had no chance against the industrial north.
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