What could the South have actually done to the North had the North taken a purely defensive position?
I don’t like what Sherman did.
I don’t personally like what I know about Grant.
Probably not much. But the North had to be on the offensive.
The objective was to force the Confederate States back in the Union. To do that, they had to destroy the Confederate armies and conquer Confederate territory. A purely defensive strategy would pretty much allowed the Confederacy to win their goal, independence.
Thuis sayeth old-ager: “What could the South have actually done to the North had the North taken a purely defensive position?
I don’t like what Sherman did.
I don’t personally like what I know about Grant.”
Antietam 1862 (Sharpsburg MD)
Gettysburg 1863 (PA)
Monocacy 1864 (MD)
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