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re: Did the South ever really have a chance (Civil War)?
Posted on 7/18/22 at 12:48 pm to LSUinMA
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.
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Posted on 7/18/22 at 3:02 pm to RollTide1987
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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
That's not what I'm alleging. Thanks.
How you proceed from taking LRT depends on if you're going artillery or infantry and if it is Lee or Longstreet giving orders.
If you eave it static and try to roll a few pieces of artillery up overnight and try to impact Cemetery Ridge on Day 3, that's probably inconsequential to the outcome as you suggest.
The other idea, pushing for a roll up behind Union lines is much more high risk given the Union numbers, but a rearguard action is so by definition also higher reward.
Such an action is admittedly hypothetical, but since we are talking about alternate events, it is all hypothetical.
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