[alfa6]

Thanks for posting the Saturday Foxhole, after all I know y'all ain't got nutin better to do with your time :-)

I would have to rate Gettysburg as #1 because it ended the Souths hope of taking the war to the North. Had Lee been succesful then the outcome of TWBS might well have turned out in a different manner.

This is not to down play the accomplishment of Grant at Vicksburg in any way. By capturing Vicksburg Grant and the Federal were able to effectively cut the Confederacy in two. However the military brain trust of the Confederacy would not spare the manpower from the Virgina theater to rescue Vicksburg for fear of Richmond falling.

More later, I Hope

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[snippy_about_it]

...after all I know y'all ain't got nutin better to do with your time

Sleep, who needs it!