re: History Nerds: The most decisive battle fought since the year 1800?

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Chancellorsville was very decisive

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Tactically perhaps. But strategically? Not so much. On April 27, the day the campaign began, the Union army was at Falmouth and the Confederate army was at Fredericksburg - both sides staring at each other from across the Rappahannock River. On May 7, the Union army was back at Falmouth and the Confederate army was back at Fredericksburg - both sides staring at each other from across the Rappahannock River, less a combined 30,000 men.