"Lee’s Invasion of Pennsylvania" Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Nov 2020 4:11 p.m. PST |
"In the spring of 1862, the Confederacy exerted its maximum mobilization effort to secure its independence. In April, the Confederacy passed a conscription act. Shortly thereafter, it abandoned the "cordon" defense that had resulted in the loss of western Tennessee—as Frederick the Great once observed: "he who attempts to defend everything ends up defending nothing"—and organized its manpower into field armies to confront the Union forces surging south. In September of 1862, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia followed up its smashing victory at Second Manassas by invading Maryland. In October, Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee attempted to reverse Confederate losses in western Tennessee by invading Kentucky. But Lee was checked at Antietam, and Bragg was turned back at Perryville. The year ended in central Tennessee with the drawn battle of Murfreesboro/Stones River and in Northern Virginia with the Federal debacle at Fredericksburg. The armies on both sides settled into winter quarters…"
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| donlowry | 10 Nov 2020 5:22 p.m. PST |
Jeff Davis never did learn that to defend everything is to defend nothing. |
| Tango01 | 11 Nov 2020 12:24 p.m. PST |
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| EJNashIII | 27 Nov 2020 11:18 a.m. PST |
If a Battle Can't be Won,
Don't Fight It. Sun Tzu goes for Gettysburg.
goes for the entire war.
Such a waste that only hastened the end of the "beloved" institution. |
| Au pas de Charge | 28 Nov 2020 9:37 a.m. PST |
A waste? Where would wargamers be without it? |
| John the Greater | 28 Nov 2020 11:58 a.m. PST |
Where would wargamers be without it Fortunately for wargamers, the French, Russians, Spanish, English (the list goes on) have kindly supplied us with civil wars. |
| donlowry | 30 Nov 2020 9:21 a.m. PST |
not to mention not-so-civil wars! |
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adds artillery to his soft-plastic Union forces.