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uncover, and which had been immediately seized by Butler's troops.
It is surely sufficient answer to those who represent Lee as even then despondently forecasting the final issue, to find him writing next day in great good humor to Anderson: “I believe that the men of your corps will carry anything they are put against.
We tried very hard to stop Pickett's men from capturing the breastworks of the enemy, but couldn't do it.”
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