A victory for the Confederacy in the American Civil War?

Answer 1

There were many important Confederate victories during the Civil War, but the first major battle of the war, First Bull Run,or First Manassas, was a decisive Confederate victory. Without that, the Union could have reduced the time of the war by years. It got the Union off to a bad start, and the pattern of Union defeats obliterated moral. From 1861-1862, the Confederacy out-shined the Union at every battle. The victories at Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville showed the Union that the war would not be a six month affair, and that there was a real chance that they would be defeated.

Answer 2

The North was Industrialized. The South was an Agricultural region. That situation would have had to have been reversed for Southern victory to happen.

Answer 3

Chancellorsville - a triumph of the fast, nimble movements of the Lee-Jackson partnership.

But it was gained at a heavy cost. Stonewall was mortally wounded there.