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re: Civil War nicknames for SEC states..
Posted on 6/27/12 at 11:11 am to TAMU87
Posted on 6/27/12 at 11:11 am to TAMU87
It was just not meant to be. If the Confederates pressed their advantage the first day at Gettysburg and siezed the high-ground, the battle ends differently, if battle orders aren't found late wrapped with cigars, if the Union Navy is captured at Alexandria as it should have been, New Orleans is once again Confederate and the Mississippi River is retaken with the 40 plus Union gunboats we now have. If if and buts were candy and nuts...you get the idea.
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Posted on 6/27/12 at 11:30 am to dwr353
Agreed, on the what if's. My point was if Johnston, would have survived and completed a decisive Victory at Shiloh, things would have been much different. Grant would have been weaken, and the Confederates would have been more aggressive in the West, making the taking of Vicksburg, more difficult. More importantly the North would have had to put more resources in the West and would have thus had less resource in the East to fight Lee, and the Army of Northern Virginia.
Another big what if would be if Gen. Stonewall Jackson would not have been Wounded/Killed in the evening of the 2nd day of the battle of Chancellorsville would the Confederates been able to take advantage of there position and push through with a very decisive victory, two Months before Gettysburg.
So many what if's...
Another big what if would be if Gen. Stonewall Jackson would not have been Wounded/Killed in the evening of the 2nd day of the battle of Chancellorsville would the Confederates been able to take advantage of there position and push through with a very decisive victory, two Months before Gettysburg.
So many what if's...
This post was edited on 6/27/12 at 11:32 am
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