[pepsionice]

It’s hard to admit it....that one simple bad decision, which amounted to a twenty-minute effort, triggered the end of the war.

Everyone, at some point in their life, needs to make a trip to Gettysburg...spend an entire day there....and get the layout of the land and the battle.

[RedMonqey]

It’s hard to admit it....that one simple bad decision

Yeah it is but history is replete with such moments.

Some have conjectured that Lee , fatigued by the long endurance of the war had suffered a mild stroke and that had compromised his decision making.

I haven't seen any proof of the stroke theory just that he died years later of one. But I can can well imagine the stress and pressure of having the responsibility of a nation resting on your every decision would wear any man down.

My brother visited the Gettysburg Battlefield and he said it was tremendous powerful experience.

Humbling he said.