It began in South Carolina, with articles of secession approved by the first state to secede — a state with a proud heritage of struggling against federal authority. So perhaps there is some sense of karma, or irony, that it ended, in some respects, in the failed attack of a South Carolina brigade commanded at Gettysburg by Brigadier General Joseph Kershaw.
Ralph Siegel is among those who regard July 2 as the critical day of the battle, the day in which Confederate victory was attainable but slipped through their fingers, the final chance for the Confederacy to win the war on the field of battle.
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Mahoning Valley Civil War Round Table 