re: Did the South ever really have a chance (Civil War)?

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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.

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The Union Sixth Corps started arriving on the field at 3:00pm on July 2nd. That's 16K men that Longstreet would have run into.