This day in the Civil War.

[A. P. Hill]

Today, May 2nd 2017, marks the 153rd anniversary of the beginning of the end of the Army of Northern Virginia.

Lt Gen'l T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson was shot at 1800 hours by his own men while returning from a personal recon of the Union forces at Chancellorsville.

[WolfE]

If Jackson remained in the CSA army, it sure would have changed the war one way or another.

[JmCraz8]

Was a sad day in history I participated in the 150th Chancellorsville Reenactment and the guy that played Jackson was an exact look a like it was a surreal sight I'll never forget.

[JmCraz8]

If Jackson remained in the CSA army, it sure would have changed the war one way or another.

I can picture Jackson flanking around the round tops to crush the enemy at Gettysburg.

[thomas aagaard]

I can picture Jackson flanking around the round tops to crush the enemy at Gettysburg.

The road network didn't support a move like that.. unlike at Chancellorsville.

[JmCraz8]

The road network didn't support a move like that.. unlike at Chancellorsville.

I know but as smart as he was would've found a way because he would've scouted himself

[Slimbizza]

Would had been completely different had General Lee listened to his subordinate General Longstreet when he told him to disengage after Confederate success on the 1st day of Gettysburg. Withdraw towards Washington, Union pursues and then fight on better ground. However, I still think the Confederate states were always going to lose the war, no matter how many battles they won. They were just prolonging the inevitable, too much industrial might was concentrated in the North. It was often said that the Union fought the Confederate's with one hand tied behind their back, economically and industrially speaking.

[JmCraz8]

Would had been completely different had General Lee listened to his subordinate General Longstreet when he told him to disengage after Confederate success on the 1st day of Gettysburg. Withdraw towards Washington, Union pursues and then fight on better ground. However, I still think the Confederate states were always going to lose the war, no matter how many battles they won. They were just prolonging the inevitable, too much industrial might was concentrated in the North. It was often said that the Union fought the Confederate's with one hand tied behind their back, economically and industrially speaking.

2nd day didn't go as planned and was delayed by many hours for Longstreets attack

[Steiner]

A truely tragic day for the Confederacy. I think he could have made an impact on battles, the structure behind the war wouldn't change. The Western theatre was already being lost being the Confederacy. Although a great military leader was lost that day, the war was strategically lost after 1862. The concept of total war where losses in producing capacity and manpower count more than the tactical victories that Jackson could produce.

[TheRegulator]

Icons of war like Stonewall Jackson, is mostly glorified beyond reality. His death is just one of the 1000 that died that day. Thier names are forgotten and most of them burried as unknown.
The Confederacy did not stand a chance in the long run, they might have won a battel or 2, but the hole idea and consept of the South, was not fit to survive in the modern World.