Why did the Confederates lose Gettysburg?

Answer 1

Gen Lee didn't pay attention to the rules of war put forth many, many years ago by a great Chinese general. One of these is not to fight someone who has the high ground. But he did that over and over again. He lost thousand of troops that way. Instead he should have gone around the ridge called Little Round Top and he might have taken Washington DC.

Answer 2

Lee's lack of timely communication with the field. J.E.B. Stuart's 4,000 man cavalry unit was to provide this. But he not only arrived late into the battle, his troop that was supposed to drive a wedge into the Union lines from the rear was intercepted and routed by Custer's much smaller detachment.

Although Union General Meade was not as experienced, charismatic or more importantly as victorious as Lee, he managed to take the high ground around the town, making it an up hill fight for the Confederates.

Answer 3

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With superior numbers, and better use of terrain.

Answer 4

Because the Confederates had no shoes, no warm clothing, no munitions, not sufficient food, no shelter and not enough horses

Answer 5

Lee could not dislodge a determined enemy, armed with state-of-the-art weapons, who had superior position (high ground) with numerically inferior and ill-equipped forces.

Answer 6

The rebel army wrecked itself attacking fortified lines, and failed to capitalize on gains made the first two days of the battle.

Answer 7

they were slautered