HELP Please...Gettysburg??

Question

I'm reviewing some American History and I have a couple of questions, please anwser only if you know you are 100% correct. If you could cite websites that would be also help me out a lot. Thanks. xo

1.What was the disagreement between Longstreet and Lee on the overall straegy of the war and about the attack on July 3rd?

2. Did the Army of North Virginia ever have a chance to win at Gettysburg?

3.Briefly avaluate the skill, fighting ability and leadership of the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg.

Answer 1

In your first, check page 75 of Brent Force's Longstreet: A General's Battle at Gettysburg (Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2004).

As for item 2, there are many that think that Gettysburg was not strictly a defeat for Lee but some call it a stalemate and others a pyrrhic victory (a win, but one that cost far too much).

The skill of both sides was given plenty of evidence. The South had an urgency that cost them. The North had a disorganized complacency that cost them. Both had advantages and both had disadvantages. Try Boritt's The Gettysburg Nobody Knows (Oxford, 1997) and Gallagher and Nolan's The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (Indiana University Press, 2000).