The High Tide of the Confederacy: Chancellorsville

[cwmackowski]

While popular history tells us that Gettysburg marked the turning point of the American Civil War-“The High Tide of the Confederacy”-most people don’t realize that story evolved as a shrewd marketing ploy to promote the town of Gettysburg as a tourist destination. Located near many of the major population centers of the eastern U.S. (Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh), Gettysburg provided a convenient place for veterans and their families to return to relieve the glory one of the North’s very few victories in the east. It became the turning point in retrospect only.

Read on, Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.