(07-17-2014 10:57 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  

(07-17-2014 09:15 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(07-17-2014 08:17 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(07-16-2014 01:55 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  I think the war is over at that point. Lee was a smart enough general to understand the futility of continuing the fight from that point. He would have had to surrender to keep from getting all his men killed in a fight he couldn't win.

I figured Lee would retreat once he found the battle untenable. Unless hooker surrounds him, the CSA just slips out the back door and retreats to Richmond to defend the capitol.

Possibly. But the south's position is much more tenuous from that point, if the outcome of the battle of Chancellorsville comes out in favor of the Union. Lee's forces are in retreat, and being forced into Richmond concentrates their forces where they are unable to use their best strategy, which was guerrilla warfare.

Lee didn't use guerrilla tactics. At best he used an early form of Blitzkrieg tactics.