[central_va]

Jesus does anyone here know history? The invasion of PA by the Army of NoVa was a political move and not strategic. The purpose was to draw the Army of the Potomac out of VA which it did for all of a few months. The people of the South thought(ignorantly so) Gettysburg was a victory because of that brief respite of union occupation of parts of VA. The secondary reason was to obtain supplies from the so far untouched by war, PA region.

You people really don't know history do you. The South was painfully aware of it's shortcomings from the get go and knew a stalemate was the only positive possible out come.

But lets say the situation was reversed and the South had all the factories and the huge population advantage. Secession means to leave; what purpose would there be to leave the Union and then invade/conquer it? Kind of defeats the whole point of secession.

[HandyDandy]

Anyway, thanks for acknowledging that the South did indeed invade the North. That’s all I maintained. For all of the Souths’ shortcomings, they wouldn’t have come up short if they had been able to gain recognition as legitimate by France and England. A victory at Gettysburg would have earned them this recognition. Remember, War is bloody Politics, Politics is bloodless War.

[rockrr]

I’ll readily admit that I’m light on lost cause history.