Battle Of Gettysburg
Beginning of paper
Gettysburg was the Army of the Potomac's only great victory on the battlefield.
Antietam, certainly a strategic victory, showed Robert E. Lee's unstoppable killing
machine was indeed stoppable. And the Army of the Potomac did eventually
force Lee's Army of Northern Virginia from its impregnable Pet ....
Middle of paper
.... one such example. When analyzing Gettysburg it
has become commonplace to ask why Lee and his army failed to win a great
victory. Fewer people look to the other side of the equation and ask why Meade
and the AOP won. What circumstances changed to enable the AOP to transform
a long string of defeats into a great victory? The odds were certainly against them
in many ways. The AOP had become accustomed to losing. Fresh from two
devastating defeats within the past six months, the AOP was cha ....
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