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How much difference would an earleir end to the war have made.

I have a couple of scenarios (but am not an expert)

Lee's retreat after Gettysberg is cut off and he is trapped against the Potomac, (a surrender at Harper's Ferry would have been interestingly symbolic)

Richmond falls by late September 1863. (does this collapse the confederacy)


Better planning for the battle of the Crater. Petersberg falls and then Richmond by August 1864.

If the war is clearly already won does Lincoln need or want Andrew Johnson.


How much difference woudl less devastation of the South have made to attitudes
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