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To: circlecity
True but it was only a matter of time until Lee was forced out or had to surrender at Petersburg. Once Grant pinned him to Petersburg it was over if not before.
4 posted on 04/01/2014 7:56:03 AM PDT by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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To: prof.h.mandingo
"True but it was only a matter of time until Lee was forced out or had to surrender at Petersburg. Once Grant pinned him to Petersburg it was over if not before."

Lee knew as much. He often quoted Napeoleon that the logical conclusion of a seige is surrender.

5 posted on 04/01/2014 7:57:39 AM PDT by circlecity
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