The Killer Angels (July 3rd, 1863) in General
- July 3, 2022, 9:40 a.m.
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“Pickett’s Charge was the climax of the Battle of Gettysburg (1863), and one of the most famous infantry attacks of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Lasting about an hour on the afternoon of July 3, 1863, it pitted 12,000 Confederates—including three brigades of Virginians under George E. Pickett—against half that number of Union troops.”
There is confidence, then there is overconfidence. I have Confederate blood flowing in my veins. And Union blood.
One thing I know about my father’s family is we refuse to accept the possibility we won’t win. For Pickett it was a costly assumption.
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woman in the moon ⋅ July 03, 2022 (edited July 03, 2022)
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I wonder if that was a war that had to be.
Just saw picture of soldiers from eastern Canada - 800 of whom 100 survived in WWI.
The World Wars would have hard to avoid.
Duke woman in the moon ⋅ July 03, 2022
It was inevitable - the northeast was getting more and more libertine and the south saw a threat to their way of life. Taking a completely dispassionate view, the civil war was going to happen. It is amazing that "we" meaning the United States won. The south always had the best soldiers, even to this day. Although Michael Murphy was from New York.
Jinn ⋅ July 03, 2022 (edited July 03, 2022)
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And it was all such a colossal waste of life, property, time . It’s a tragedy in history that “ We “ learned little from. Men just like to fight and kill instead of finding peaceful compromises or solutions. It’s been that way for centuries. :-(
Telstar ⋅ July 03, 2022
I've heard that the South would have won the war if it had a navy.
Supposedly the South was pretty much starved out because no supplies could be imported due to a naval blockade.
Slavery was never right but the South paid the price for many years thereafter.
Duke Telstar ⋅ July 03, 2022
The blockade also stopped the south from exporting cotton and other cash crops, effectively throttling the south financially. If I am not mistaken Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind was a blockade runner.