The Civil War Day By Day Sesquicentennial Thread

[Toujours Pret]

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IX Corps did well at Antietam until they crashed into the Light Division, imo

 

[SALAMANDER DRAKE]

IX Corps did well at Antietam until they crashed into the Light Division, imo

True. He took the bridge, later named after him, until AP Hill came from Harpers Ferry. Talk about a forced march.

I just know Lincoln wasn't happy with Burnsides' performance at Fredrickburg and replaced him with Hooker.

Antietam should be on McCllelans shoulders for allowing Lee to withdraw.

But you're right, Fredricksburg in more on Burnside.

 

[Velo Vol]

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[Burhead]

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Let's play god for a moment, how would have things played out if Lee and the rest of the Confederate forces on the field did not surrender and instead melted away and started a guerrilla movement in the south as some were advocating?

 

[Godfatha]

Let's play god for a moment, how would have things played out if Lee and the rest of the Confederate forces on the field did not surrender and instead melted away and started a guerrilla movement in the south as some were advocating?

You would have had Sherman's total war on a more widespread scale. Reconstruction, if any, would have take much longer and there would have been much more prolonged hostility between the sides.

Militarily, I don't think it would have accomplished much of anything except perhaps in mountainous regions of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, but it would just means those areas would be lawless and wouldn't be worth the effort to fight for. No large scale guerilla army without a supply line could survive. The North would have had all the sections of the South that produced agriculture or industry.

 

[volunteer2]

One thing that ticked off the Union was that the Confederate provisional government needed money to start their own government and at the end of January in 1861 they confiscated the gold and silver from the federal mint in New Orleans. They had intentions of making confederate coins there. They also took over the Federal mints in Dahlonega, Georgia and Charlotte, North Carolina. They struck $2.12 in confederate coins, 4 half dollars and 12 pennies all at New Orleans.