AHC: Have the CSA retake the Mississippi river!

More or less correct, but with one major caveat - if the survivors of Hood's army hadn't been carted off to the Atlantic Coast, Wilson would have had a much harder time gutting Alabama. Maybe he wouldn't have done it at all.

That simple fact pretty much disproves the whole "destroyed" idea. If Hood was destroyed, then how can the remains of his army matter even in the slightest? Yet they did.

Nashville was the last major gasp of the Confederacy west of the Appalachians. Hood's army was broken, period. Thomas prepared carefully, had a logistical advantage, and neutralized his opponent. Atlanta broke the back of the Confederacy, Nashville just about slit its throat.
 
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More or less correct, but with one major caveat - if the survivors of Hood's army hadn't been carted off to the Atlantic Coast, Wilson would have had a much harder time gutting Alabama. Maybe he wouldn't have done it at all.

That simple fact pretty much disproves the whole "destroyed" idea. If Hood was destroyed, then how can the remains of his army matter even in the slightest? Yet they did.

They really didn't matter except to present the illusion the Confederacy still could fight, though.
 

Anaxagoras

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They really didn't matter except to present the illusion the Confederacy still could fight, though.

Sometimes maintaining the illusion is just as important as maintaining the reality. After all, barring foreign intervention, the only way the Confederacy can succeed is by persuading the Northern body politic that conquering them will not be worth the cost in blood and treasure. In such cases, the perception of reality is just as important as reality.
 
More or less correct, but with one major caveat - if the survivors of Hood's army hadn't been carted off to the Atlantic Coast, Wilson would have had a much harder time gutting Alabama. Maybe he wouldn't have done it at all.

That simple fact pretty much disproves the whole "destroyed" idea. If Hood was destroyed, then how can the remains of his army matter even in the slightest? Yet they did.

Yes, because he just did that unhindered without any resistance whatsoever. :rolleyes:

I love it how Nathan Bedford Forrest's fighting in Selma and Montgomery gets neglected because he got an asswhupping.
 
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