The Battle of Appomattox

The United States would not really I think it creates it reach parity with Britain around as far as the economy about 1865 1870. The German and British military attache is that worth the victory parade after Appomattox, especially the German military act to shame when he put 65,000 troops on donkeys in a parade through Washington. Sherman deliberately made them wear the same uniforms they were all torn up. They had not lost a battle hadn't really fought that many battles but they had destroyed the cohesion of the south. And so the once they strip all of the supposed brilliant officers out of West Point for the last eight or 10 years you get people like Sheridan who are intrinsically military geniuses.