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To: Morgan's Raider
I've read that General Lee was suffering from dysentery during the Battle of Gettysburg - not good in July heat. He was probably dehydrated )(which can manifest itself into heart problems).

Lee's health at Gettysburg was no better and no worse than it had been 8 weeks earlier at Chancellorsville.

173 posted on 10/15/2005 11:42:07 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Lee's health at Gettysburg was no better and no worse than it had been 8 weeks earlier at Chancellorsville.

Lee was also suffering from the loss of Stonewall Jackson. His order to take Cemetery Hill "if practicable" would have been interpreted a helluva lot differently by Jackson than it was by Dick Ewell.

221 posted on 10/15/2005 4:00:50 PM PDT by Morgan's Raider
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