<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Bill Peters</i>
<br />Scott - definitely '64 was the key year but '63 with Gettysburg and Vicksburg losses were a huge morale problem for the South.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Atlanta and Petersburg were big morale dampers in the North in '64...but we all know how that turned out. [:D]
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Bill Peters</i>
<br />Tennessee was definitely one of the keys to the war and as you say may have been THE key but alot of other things had to be accomplished before Tennessee would fall.
The other being the severing of the Mississippi that denies the CSA the use of the Texas ports.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Ah but Tenneesee has to be secured to allow of base of operations to get to Vicksburg. So in the essence of it it still suits the point.
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<br />One of the what-ifs of the war - had Farragut been able to take Mobile Bay sooner also plays a part of the story. Forget the Red River operation and go for Mobile Bay was one theory that was put up about a way to help shorten the war (note that they didnt say it WOULD shorten the war - like Tennessee it was one of those golden apples that would help shorten the conflict)<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Ah the forgotten part so the war, Red River!! [:)]
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Bill Peters</i>
<br />Great Britain probably afforded herself one of her best allies later in history by NOT going to war. When WW2 broke out the US became one of her staunchest allies. A past war with England sometime around 1862 would have left an ill taste in alot of Americans mouths over the war.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
This is a very valid point.....
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Bill Peters</i>
<br />But these are just what-ifs. We will never know what could have been ...
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Ah but Bill it is what makes the world go round...it's all fun!![:D][:D]
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