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You should look up the distinctions between "offensive," "attack," and "raid."
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Offensive (Military term)...is a military operation that seeks through aggressive projection of armed force to occupy territory, gain an objective or achieve some larger strategic, operational or tactical goal.
Early conducted an Offensive operation in 1864.
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Yeah? Doesn't mean they couldn't be heroes. The Wehrmacht was heroic in its resistance (mainly to the Soviets) in 1945. Doesn't mean they weren't, for the most part, a bunch of evil bastards.
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What is it with you and your hard on for the Wehrmacht?
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Bevin, Alexander, How the South Could Have Won the Civil War. I don't feel like finding the book and then leafing through it to find the relevant passages, so I won't right now.
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Ah yes, a book based on Monday Quarterbacking.
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The point was that the figure is probably disputed, and you're just being a douchebag anyway because it has no relevance to our discussion.
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You got the official figures wrong. Not I.
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You don't think Gettysburg would have made a difference? I rather think that the presence of some 50,000 Confederates within striking range of Philadelphia and DC would have been cause for concern, don't you?
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No, losing at Gettysburg didn't make a difference. As the Confederates back tracked to get to Gettysburg after Heath went into Gettysburg looking for supplies (Gettysburg was accidental battle, Both sides didn't even hold the High Ground on the first day). The Confederates were mainly North of Gettysburg between June 28th-30th. If the Confederates had Jeb Stuart screening, Heath would have known it wasn't just a militia. Once the Battle started, forces up around Harrisburg were called back to Gettysburg.
Philly would have been taken if Heath (or Stuart) made the right choices. Not fighting at Gettysburg could have made a difference.
Personally the start of the end of the war happened at Chancellorsville. Losing Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson would be like the Allies losing Patton in the middle of WW2. If (thats a big if) Jackson was in command of Second Corps during the march north.. Gettysburg would have been a very very different battle. Units the Jackson commanded did most of the hard fighting late the first day through to the 3rd. Mainly on the Right Flank (area called Culp's Hill) which was the end of the line.
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