What so you think was The Confederacy's best chance for winning the Civil War and when did they go wrong? Personally I Think it was Lee's refusal to go along with Longstreet's strategy during the Gettysburg Campaign,but I want to know what you think.
2007-07-23 09:08:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
just to let you no you can never win a war defensively. lee had the right idea not longstreet. i think it was when they lost the battle of antietam because it caused england and france to stay out of the conflict. That is what opened the door for the south to lose. Gettysburg might have been the turning point and crushed lees forces to the point where they could never mount another offensive but the south would never have been able to take washington anyway.
2007-07-23 10:23:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. Longstreet wanted to get between the federal army, and Washington. And make the union fight them on the ground of there choosing. Longstreet knew that the union had the high ground, and that they could not win at Gettysburg. I think that Lee was one of the most overrated generals in American history.
2007-07-23 09:32:05 · answer #2 · answered by out for justice. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lee did miss the boat with Longstreet.
2007-07-23 09:20:54 · answer #3 · answered by labdoctor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The quondam Confederacy was doomed from the moment they pulled the first lanyard in Charleston harbor in April 1861. There was at no time any possibility that it had the necessary resources (social and economic) to succeed against determined Federal opposition.
2007-07-23 10:12:49 · answer #4 · answered by blueprairie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As soon as you could see that the war was going to last longer than 6 months, the Confederacy was doomed to failure. They never had the manpower or the supplies to defeat the much larger and more industrialized North.
2007-07-23 09:45:43 · answer #5 · answered by joby10095 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best chance was at First Manassas. The Union was retreating, fleeing, abandoning the battle field in total disarray and confusion. Beauregard could have taken Washington by sunset. The Union would have never survived the psychological shock.
2007-07-23 14:38:39 · answer #6 · answered by Yak Rider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the image YOU get when you think of god may be different then others.I on one hand think the bible is a bogus story book about a guy making a perfect world and screwing it up, all not real, Robert E. Lee on the other hand was a very smart man, and real. He did not necessarily screw up he just was facing a force much better prepared then his, eg. in supplies, population, navy, etc. Ps. god supposedly didn't protect slaves during the civil war lol
2016-05-21 03:22:05 · answer #7 · answered by juanita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they pushed to far North, without little time to repair their broken Armies. if the south would have had the income and supplies as the North did, I think the outcome of the war would have went the other way. But either way, it was a needless war that killed way to many Americans. I still laugh when we try to act like we are such a peaceful country! Our country was forged in the fires of war!
2007-07-23 09:15:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The move of general Sherman to march to and through Atlanta was the biggest blow to the Confederate army. That move split the Confederacy in two, and completely ruined the morale of the Confederate army.
2007-07-23 09:19:44 · answer #9 · answered by ahab850 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They never had a prayer only a delusion and spirit and little else. you can't win when your industry consists of a couple of small cannon factories and some small gun manufacturers. So I would say the south went wrong by not breaking the blockade.
2007-07-23 09:31:49 · answer #10 · answered by brian L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋