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To: DoodleDawg
There was no "one day" where the South could have won. The long succession of "Army of the Potomac is thoroughly whupped, comes back to fight again" events proved that.

There was one day when the South could have lost. If McClellan had put his whole army in at Antietam, or attacked Lee in force on the second day, it could have all been over. But then, given that this is McClellan we're talking about here, it's not even a possible counterfactual.

230 posted on 03/18/2015 7:38:33 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (I wish someone would tell me what "diddy wah diddy" means.....)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

I honestly believe that the South lost on April 12, 1861 when they fired on Sumter. It just took four years for them to realize that. I just can’t come up with a scenarion where they don’t win. The closest they could have come was if they had won at Antietam and the British did try to intervene and negotiate a settlement leading to Southern independence, but even then I think Lincoln could have survived foreign pressure and continue the war.


231 posted on 03/18/2015 7:49:29 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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