re: Civil War time travel question/debate

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I'm with you. The union army was about 500,000 strong in 1862. NO way 100 seals could do anything remotely effective even with 100 snipers.

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Sincerely surprised it took this long for someone to mention it would be 100 against 500,000.

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I'm with you. The union army was about 500,000 strong in 1862. NO way 100 seals could do anything remotely effective even with 100 snipers.

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Considering the tactics of the day, sure they could, and it's not 100 snipers going it alone, but 100 snipers taking out officers, and people in artillery, and that's a game changer. I mean, the confederates took out 2 to 1 with a bunch of country boys with squirrel guns, muskets, and even in spite of repeaters and Gatling Guns toward the end of the war. Taking out officers and artillery personnel from over a mile away would most certainly have had an enormous impact on the outcome of the war, through eliminating fire support to get troops in closer, confusion and breakdowns in chain of command.