I believe the defeat at Gettysburg was as a result of Lee's illness, bad intel of the Union side, lack of cavalry support for said intel,
and just plain bad tactics....not to mention no clear goal for the invasion of the North....
An aside : there is a book about Pickett's charge..will have to look it up... that disputes the numbers involved and shows that it wasn't a headlong charge into slaughter as some have thought...
the Reb soldiers weren't completely stupid after all... )
If the Union side had been soundly defeated at Gettysburg, there would have been an offer for some sort of settlement on Lincoln's desk soon after...who knows what would have happened then....
In reality, the South never had a chance. If the European allies had done something sooner and Russia hadn't intervened, things might have been different.
The international banking interests were behind both sides and were the real winners, and were directly responsible for Lincoln's murder...and as in all wars, the soldiers on both sides were the losers......and slavery ( in all its forms ), the presumed "cause" of the war, wasn't de facto ended untill 100 years later.....
DEO VINDICE
Larry
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