... battles I would have been compelled to fight had I remained in Virginia. General Lee, says Major Seddon, then rose from his seat, and with an emphatic gesture said, and sir, we did whip them at Gettysburg , and it will be seen for the next six months that that army will be as quiet as a sucking dove. The Army of the Potomac made no aggressive movement, saving the fiasco known as Mine Run, from the ...