Originally Posted by
Excargodog
All true, but without that one artillery battery it might still have broken the line - it got damn close - and if it had done that and turned the flanks, it would have been all over, because prior to Gettysburg the Union Army didn’t have a lot of victories. One more loss and it might have been all over for the Union.
if you read Shelby Foote, and listen to what he says at the end of ken burns civil war doc, the north never had to really get serious. There were many areas untouched and unaffected by the war. Their industrial, size and wealth advantage made it all but a foregone conclusion that they would prevail. If Lee would have accepted command of the army of the Potomac, it would have been a 2 year conflict, max. Now, back to furloughs and bankruptcies, when can I start to panic?