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To: TimF who wrote (106)	1/30/2003 11:02:50 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 341

Grant. First, it takes much less to defend than to advance, and yet Lee was eventually routed; second, it seems to me an obvious mistake to have attempted his only penetration North through Maryland and into Pennsylvania, instead of through going around to Ohio; third, a lot of Union troops were merely tied up securing Maryland, which was a slave state with about half the population favoring secession; fourth, one reason it was imperative to secure Maryland was that Lincoln was determined not to surrender Washington, DC, and did not move the government from there. Leaving enough troops to continue to menace Washington would have allowed Lee practically a free hand in entering Ohio, to do serious damage to rail and canal routes as well as ironworks and munitions plants in western Pennsylvania, and eventually to have attacked from behind the Union forces guarding Washington. That he never made a concerted effort for such an end run convinces me that Lee was too conventional a general......