#300 GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN (Part the Fourth)
The Civil War & Reconstruction
Richard Youngdahl
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🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In which we look at Robert E Lee's reorganization of the Army of Northern Virginia prior to the start of the Gettysburg Campaign.
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| 0:30.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to the 300th episode of our Civil War Podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm Rich. |
| 0:42.6 | And I'm Tracy. |
| 0:43.6 | Hello y'all. |
| 0:44.8 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:46.8 | Okay. |
| 0:47.8 | Can I just take a moment to say episode number 300? |
| 0:52.2 | Wow. |
| 0:53.2 | Wow indeed. |
| 0:56.2 | Well, that's enough self-congratulation. |
| 1:00.0 | So back to the business at hand. |
| 1:03.3 | As y'all recall, with the last show we talked about Robert E. Lee's reasons for wanting to, |
| 1:08.5 | as he put it, assume the aggressive. |
| 1:11.6 | We saw that in the aftermath of the Battle of Chancellorsville, Lee decided that instead |
| 1:16.6 | of remaining on the defensive and waiting for the next federal offensive, he would seize |
| 1:21.8 | the initiative and lead his army north a second time. |
| 1:26.5 | Such a movement had many potential benefits. |
| 1:29.9 | It would disrupt federal plans for the summer campaigning season and take the armies away |
| 1:35.3 | from war-ravaged central Virginia, giving the people of Lee's home state a respite |
| 1:41.3 | from the hard hand of war. |
| 1:44.1 | A march north would also give the men of Lee's army a chance to gather much-needed provisions |
| 1:49.5 | from the rich agricultural countryside of Pennsylvania. |
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