goodoldrebel
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Lee's image is forever tarnished with the biggest blunder of choosing to attack the yankees instead of continuing to defend against northern aggression.
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State Govt. passed legal Secession Ordnances, if Treason, why was no one ever tried for it? Fla replaced Suwanee River because it was not P.C. for a white guy to write using what today would be called Ebonics, & use it for the State Song.I mean, the secession was, by default in the war's end, a treasonous act.
I think if he had continued flanking the union troops as he moved toward Washington he could have waited until the terrain suited an attack. Giving the enemy the high ground just shows he was believing his own publicity. Hubris brings even the best Generals undone.
Should have been called "Longstreet's Charge", he was in charge of all the chargers, not Pickett.
Lee was an idiot...all of his aids gave him sane advice before and during the battle and he ignored them all.
Charging up a hill with the enemy shooting down at you? I've been to that hill and it is all just rocks and grass with nothing to hide behind.
On paper Chancellorsville shouldn't have gone any better than Gettysburg, the odds just cought up @ Gettysburg. It's amazing how many times the ANV should have been crushed, but got out of it.Longstreet was sorta of Persona non grata after the war, when the advance was dubbed Picketts charge. His blaming of Lee pretty much cast him outta the Lost Cause, Southern Gallantry club of surviving Generals.
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