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To: Michael.SF.
To where and when do your refer? Gettysburg only, during the entire course of the war or ??

During the Gettysburg campaign.

111 posted on 07/17/2008 3:47:32 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
During the Gettysburg campaign.

True. At Gettysburg he had extended himself beyond where his previously used supply lines could reach. In the context that I was using the term "strengthen his supply lines" a better choice of word would have been "reestablish his supply lines by extending them to Gettysburg."

However, as others have pointed out staying in Gettysburg after a victory was not an option that would be given serious consideration.

An evaluation of the Unions strength (would they have withdrawn to lick their wounds, or surrendered) after a defeat of Meade, would be critical to the decision making process before a next step was to be seriously considered.

112 posted on 07/17/2008 4:38:48 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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