Which of these battles was considered to be the high point o...

Which of these battles was considered to be the high point of the Confederacy?

first manasas

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Gen. Lee missed his opportunity to really stir up the northern populace and maybe get the Unionists to allow the south to leave the Union, early on in the War. Had he conducted punishing raids in 1861, along the Md/Pa border, as he did in 1863, chances are the south would've been a separate country today. Because of this belief, 1st Manassass was likely the high point, at which time, had Gen. Thomas Jackson been given a free hand, he could've won seccession for the south.
As it turned out, Lincoln was a very quick study, in terms of learning how to prosecute a war and put stars on the collars of fighting people. Lincoln hired and fired generals until he got men who could not only fight their armies well, but wanted to fight and win the war.
Gen. Lee seemed to know only attack, attack. This tactic is no good when you are always outnumbered and outgunned by the opposition, who is only too happy to go on the defensive and mow down the attacker. In all his battles, Lee only killed more Yankees than he lost at Fredericksburg. Fredericksburg was a great victory for Lee, handed to him by an inept Burnside. That said, Fredericksburg came too late to be called the high water mark, as southern strength had already been bled down to a "no win" level.
"High point" for the Confederacy is hard to find. In truth, the question has never been why the north won, but why it took them so long to do so. The answer lies in the fact that it took the north nearly three years to build up a great fighting army, complete with competent leadership. Once that point was reached, the end was near and never in doubt.
Steven A.