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the offensive, to traverse once more the familiar Valley, to break once more through the gate of the Potomac, and to insult with the fires of his bivouacs the capital city of his enemy.
Reading these things, they will refuse to believe, what we know, that men were found here and now to call this marvelous campaign a retreat.
The truth is that Lee took a real defensive, if at all, only in the
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