Comments by "Flash Point History" (@FlashPointHx) on "Why did The Confederates Lose The War in just 2 Battles? - The American Civil War (1863)" video.

Vicksburg is one of the most amazing Civil War battle sites I've ever been too. Standing on the bluffs that overlook the Mississippi, one can understand just how massive a fortress it was. I took a man with a massive degree of patience to take this and Grant was truly the man for the task. He didn't know how to back off.
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@antman6707 the thing was, it wasn’t that simple for his predecessors. They’d take a hit and retreat and eventually get replaced. Had McClennan pushed the offensive on the peninsula or at Antietam, Lee would have been done. Had Hooker subordinates not been so inept or if he had opted to attack more atChancellorsville would have been very different. Even Burnside had defeated himself before Fredericksburg. Grant took a hit and kept going - after the battle of the wilderness, which was a defeat his men cheered as he turned them south to pursue Lee. Even after cold harbor, where he lost more men than Lee at Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, he kept going.
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@antman6707 Agree
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