Question

8. The Battle of Gettysburg was a departure from which part of the Confederate military strategy?

Fighting a defensive war
King Cotton Diplomacy
Splitting the North in two by controlling the Mississippi River
Destroy transport and communication networks

Answer 1

Fighting a defensive war.

Robert E. Lee wanted to take the war to the Union, on Union ground. Most of his victories had been in or near Army of Virginia home soil.

Going north was an attempt to shorten the war as he knew a prolonged war of attrition favored the industrial and populous north.

Father against son, brother against brother. A very sad time.