That’s a well-taken point. Buford died before the end of the war, a soldier’s death. He deserves a statue. Between him and the “Fighting Professor,” Joshua Chamberlain, Gettysburg was saved. I really think we’d be two nations today if not for those two men.
Even with a Lee victory at Gettysburg, would he have been able to exploit the victory there into victory for the Confederacy?
I think the argument that Vicksburg was the more strategically important of the two July 1863 Union victories is pretty compelling.
OT LS but just heard your interview on Janet Mefferd - great job from this fellow Daytonian albeit a MBA grad from WSU.