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To: mainepatsfan

How the war would have progressed with Stonewall Jackson we will never know. The south was doomed from the start as Rhett Butler pointed out, arrogance and warehouses full of cotton don’t win wars. Remember an issue settled by force of arms must forever remain unsettled.
barbra ann


7 posted on 07/21/2010 5:06:53 AM PDT by barb-tex (REMEMBER NOVEMBER!!! Slim as it may be, it is our last hope.)
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To: barb-tex

For one thing, I think Jackson would have talked Lee out of Pickett’s Charge on day three of Gettysburg, assuming that there had been a day three. Jackson didn’t like set-piece battles, which is why he was both an effective commander and one of the modern military thinkers of that era. So, I don’t believe there would have been a three day battle in that one location.


11 posted on 07/21/2010 2:51:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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