Bingo, the CSA was toast before Appomattox all Lee did was string it out. He should have surrendered after Lincoln's re-election, at the latest.
Someone on a thread from another site pointed out Lee really didn't have that option given his position.
Blame Davis, not Lee.
Fair enough, in any case the South should have surrendered after Lincoln's re-election. The war was clearly unwinnable by then.
Yeah. Even if Lincoln hadn't been reelected it might not have mattered, but with a Lincoln reelection, there was simply nothing to halt the ever-more-successful Union war machine.
Certainly nothing wearing grey, and by the popular decision on who would be president, no one on the home front to the north either.
Bingo, the CSA was toast before Appomattox all Lee did was string it out. He should have surrendered after Lincoln's re-election, at the latest.