Tag: General Robert E. Lee
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The decisive influence of malaria on the outcome of Grant’s Vicksburg campaign of 1863
Lloyd KleinEric WittenbergCalifornia, San Francisco, United States The vital importance of controlling the Mississippi River was apparent to Union strategists from the beginning of the Civil War. The river served as a major supply route, facilitated the transportation of men and military supplies, and abetted communication. Union control of the river would deprive the Confederacy…
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The imponderable ‘what-ifs’: Did the medical issues of three Confederate generals cause the South to lose the war?
Kevin R. Loughlin During the darkest days of World War II, Winston Churchill was credited as saying, “The imponderable ‘what- ifs’ accumulate”. Throughout history, imponderable what ifs have provoked the observer to consider how historical outcomes may have turned out differently. Such it is with the Civil War. It can be reasonably argued that the…