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Originally Posted by Fairplay
Lee was going to wreck havoc and chaos to Harrisburg, PA and destroy one of the North's main railroad arteries of supply.
He was sidetracked, should have kept moving north by northeast and kept to the original plan, strategically the north had a superior location with their army he should've known to move on. The south was going to fail anyway just a matter of time for the beat down, Lee just hurried it along.
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I don't think so. If not for the conscription act and a near unlimited supply of Irish Immigrants, I think it would have raged to a draw