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How much of a plus was Davis to the Confederate war effort, though?

MacKinlay Cantor has Grant dying in a riding accident outside Vicksburg in his If the South Had Won the Civil War. But he also has to make Lee's Gettysburg gamble pay off in the capture of Washington DC.

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Lee always spoke very highly of Davis.

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If for no other reason that to cut the head off the snake.