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Richmond and Washington pulled some pretty good sized " boo-boos". But I'm assuming we are talking militarily here , right ?
Texas was never a top priority for the Union. Securing the Border States was far more"Id recommend Ed Cotham's Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae:"
So Texas was never controlled by the Union during the war because of this battle ?
Certainly some debate about weather or not Bragg even with Longstreet's Corps could of done so.Why Bragg did not finish off Rosecrans at Chattanooga, when they had the Federal Army surrounded.
Lubliner.
Nobody has yet mentioned the highly underrated battle of Perryville. As Lincoln himself said " to loose Kentucky is to loose the game". Kentucky was a critical state for the Union to hold as it was the gate way to Tennessee.What do people think was the biggest mistake of the war in terms of bad tactics and loss of men. The ones that come to mind are Grant @ Cold Harbour, Sherman @ Kennesaw Mountain, John B Hood @ Franklin , Lee @ Gettysburg Pickett's Charge. For me they are all bad but Franklin was the worst.
Certainly some debate about weather or not Bragg even with Longstreet's Corps could of done so.
Leftyhunter
What do people think was the biggest mistake of the war in terms of bad tactics and loss of men. The ones that come to mind are Grant @ Cold Harbour, Sherman @ Kennesaw Mountain, John B Hood @ Franklin , Lee @ Gettysburg Pickett's Charge. For me they are all bad but Franklin was the worst.
Some posters have argued that even if Longstreet's Corps was in position around Chattanooga Hooker's relief Corps of approximately 20 k men would of still been able to establish the Cracker Line. It's an interesting what if plus of course Sherman's Corps was also in its way to Chattanooga.Both conservative types in terms of tactics in what I have read , it’s like the Ewell Gettysburg debate ie what if Jackson was there.
To be fair the Union Navy had something to do with it?Who was responsible for the blunder of keeping so much cotton off of the European market?
Who was responsible for the blunder of keeping so much cotton off of the European market?
Yes and no. There was the Lancashire Cotton Famine which hit the UK hard plus also led to layoffs in France and Czarist occupied Poland.Confederate government policy in the early days of the war was to maintain its cotton surplus in the hopes of "starving" textile producing nations such as Great Britain into taking steps to end or interfere in the war in a way that would benefit the Confederacy and/or ensure its independence. This strategy failed when Britain and others sought new sources of cotton from places like Egypt and India. Moreover, the working class in England who stood the most to lose as a result of shuttered factories still never rallied to the southern cause.
Not one person was responsible.Who was responsible for the blunder of keeping so much cotton off of the European market?
Certainly a major blunder was the secessionists forgetting that eighty odd years prior to the ACW the British Army had successfully recruited slaves in the American Colonies and offering the enslaved men and their families freedom. Not smart to not study history.What do people think was the biggest mistake of the war in terms of bad tactics and loss of men. The ones that come to mind are Grant @ Cold Harbour, Sherman @ Kennesaw Mountain, John B Hood @ Franklin , Lee @ Gettysburg Pickett's Charge. For me they are all bad but Franklin was the worst.