DaHound22
Banned
It may be 5 miles long but no one needs to protect it length wise, but width wise, (like Thermopylae) and the widest these ridges get is not quite a mile. And again, shoulder to shoulder a man is roughly a foot (actually 1.5 feet) wide, neaning standing shoulder to shoulder to block the pass, you only need a few thousand, and the confederates have much more than just a few tousand to place there. Combine that with trenches and a main army ready to move to the Gap if need be and Sherman is going nowhere without a bloody fight