Wrongo, bongo. Lee used ground and maneuver to twist the North’s head all the way off and all the way back on again, and he did it for years. He never had the resources to fight the kind of war that Grant did. If anybody was stuck in the 18th century during that war it was Grant’s predecessors.
I will grant you Pickett’s Charge was foolhardy and unexplainable in light of Lee’s other battles.
You mean like Malvern Hill? Or what he saw Burnside do at Fredericksburg?
had just one more CS infantry regiment been thrown at 20th ME, the WHOLE of the northern army would have folded up down that ridge-line, like a paper accordion.
according to the NPS docent at the museum, 20th ME had a TOTAL of 32 rounds left at the end of the battle;most of that was pistol ammunition.
so the charge wasn't a "foolhardy" tactic.
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