At Chancellorsville, Lee's army suffered 20% casualties. Hard to continue at that rate, especially when he only inflicted 5,000 more casualties on a US Army that was twice the CSA's size.
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Of course precisely the same can be said of Grant and Meade.
Understatement of the year, but of course Grant and Meade were operating under different strategic conditions. Sometimes the shortest path to a favorable end to a conflict is directly over the river of blood (not that all the decisions there were stellar, but still).
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Except that that river of blood nearly lost the war until Atlanta finally played along.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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