Either I'm not communicating well, or your misreading what I have said. We're in agreement pretty much.
That it did the Confederate one was a sign of why the South lost.
That's true of any key battle or war though, including the Revoltionary War: e.g. Washington was nearly shot leaving the Battle of the Brandywine by British Captain Patrick Ferguson, one of the Brits best sharpshooters. Ferguson didn't shoot because it was considered ungentlemanly to shoot another officer in the back. Fateful decision on Ferguson's part. And Americans weren't so kind-- they deliberately targeted British officers and shot them whenever they had the chance. The British lost the Battle of Saratoga, and the tide of the war was ultimately changed because of an lowly illiterate sharpshooter from Ireland named Tim Murphy, who assassinated the British Brigadier-General Simon Fraser.
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That it did the Confederate one was a sign of why the South lost.
That's true of any key battle or war though, including the Revoltionary War: e.g. Washington was nearly shot leaving the Battle of the Brandywine by British Captain Patrick Ferguson, one of the Brits best sharpshooters. Ferguson didn't shoot because it was considered ungentlemanly to shoot another officer in the back. Fateful decision on Ferguson's part. And Americans weren't so kind-- they deliberately targeted British officers and shot them whenever they had the chance. The British lost the Battle of Saratoga, and the tide of the war was ultimately changed because of an lowly illiterate sharpshooter from Ireland named Tim Murphy, who assassinated the British Brigadier-General Simon Fraser.