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Hey everyone, welcome to episode 299 of our Civil War podcast.

My name is Rich.

As you guys will recall, in the last show we looked at the important meeting that took place

in Richmond on May 15th, 1863, between Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Davis's Secretary

of War, James Seddon, and General Robert E. Lee.

We said that Lee would have gone to that conference with two goals.

First, to resist the pressure to send troops from Virginia out west.

And then, second, secure approval to, as Lee had put it, assume the aggressive, and take

the war to the enemy with a strike north across the Potomac and into Pennsylvania.

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