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To: Kenneth Kirk who wrote (145)	1/30/2003 3:14:16 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 341

The South might have avoided defeat at Gettysburg that way, but I find it hard to believe they could have avoided ultimate defeat. Ken Burns, in his PBS series, claims that Lee was tired of fighting by then and had been showing it for some time. He quotes Lee as having decided to settle the secession/Civil War issue then and there at Gettysburg. This apparently also led him to order that stupid charge across open ground against Union soldiers behind a rock fence (Pickett's Charge). Pickett never forgave Lee for that: "That old man had my division slaughtered."

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