Hardly. Army sizes for the battle are all over the board. Confederate estimates run from 35,000 to 50,000 with 45,000 being the most commonly quoted size. Union army runs from 80,000 to over 100,000 with somewhere between 85,000 and 90,000 probably being the most accurate. No way it was 3-to-1.
‘Hardly. Army sizes for the battle are all over the board. Confederate estimates run from 35,000 to 50,000 with 45,000 being the most commonly quoted size. Union army runs from 80,000 to over 100,000 with somewhere between 85,000 and 90,000 probably being the most accurate. No way it was 3-to-1.’
Psst. Using the extremes of your own numbers, 90K to 35K....gee, sure looks close to 3 -1 to me....(chuckle)
Lee claimed he had 37,000 effectives AFTER Hill ‘came up’.
McClellan claimed he was facing 200,000 troops, based on the laughable Allan Pinkerton’s insane assessment, which has always caused me to wonder if Pinkerton wasn’t in fact a Southern Sympathizer, he was so wrong then and on numerous other occasions.