Sunday, May 20, 2012
Battle of Gettysburg
It depends on what happens later. If the Confederates had won the Battle of Gettysburg, they might have still won at heavy casualties. The Union might have pursued them and wiped out the remaining forces anyways. Or if they didn't win, the Confederates might have gotten cocky at another battle and lost then. There's a lot of ways the war could have turned out, and I don't think that the outcome depended on that one battle. Also, seeing as the France and Britain didn't support the Confederates before even though they were winning during the first year, the chances of them joining the Confederate cause isn't high. Lincoln, no matter the outcome, probably would have pursued his goal in defeating the South because of victories elsewhere. It would not look good for him to spend so much money, resources, and manpower on a war in which he later just surrenders because of a single battle. So even if the Confederates did win the Battle of Gettysburg, the outcome would've been still weighed against them.
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I disagree with you on this one Eric. No matter what, if the Confederacy had won then they would have easily won because Gettysburg was key to their plan. Lets just they didn't get foreign support, they still gained morale and dropped Union morale. If the union had lost they probably never would have gotten Ulysses S. Grant as a general therefore costing them the war.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Shivum and I'm going to have to disagree with you Eric. Since this was maybe one of the bigger and more important battles and if the South had won then a lot of man power would be distinguished. A lot of men would have died, the North morale would drop, the South morale would go sky high, and Lincoln would debate with himself and probably with others about whether or not the war should go on with so many lives on the line.
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