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(02-12-2015 06:04 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Pretty sure cotton gin was invented in 1793, not 1893, history guy. Also, yes, slavery was a dying institution in 1888.

Do you know our beat writer, Nick Birdsong?

You got me on that slip of the date. The point I was making still holds up if the date is corrected. Those 10 years (1783 to 1793) made all the difference in how the nation (and the Constitutional Convention in 1788) handled the slavery issue. It is probably true that the southern states would never have compromised on slavery issues as they did if they had known what was ahead.

(02-11-2015 09:36 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  You should probably let it go. It's been 150 years.

The best chance the Confederates had at winning the war undeniably was at Gettysburg.

After the victory at Chancellorsville, General Lee knew a letter had been prepared by the Southern government - a letter which offered peace - that was to be placed on the desk of Abraham Lincoln after the U.S. army was destroyed somewhere north of Washington.

Pickett's Charge was a bloodbath. No 15,000 men ever made could have taken that ridge. A mile over open ground, with a fence to climb? Suicide.

The Confederates should have listened to Longstreet - redeploy the army somewhere north of Washington on a ground of their own choosing, and force the United States army to attack them.

War's over. let it go.