
The Civil War in Virginia
Lectures in History
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The Army of the Potomac
There are a limited number of ways you can take an army to richmond and supply it. And i think mac pherson and grant would have worked well together with mc pherson being a sort of army of the potomac commander, kind of glorified a chief of staff. As it was, mead was constantly feeling resentful of grant. He's always telling me what to do. Grant keeps trying to take his hands away from mead. Mead keeps making mistakes, which grant then has to intervene. You've got the problem that meade's upset because grant has intervened. Meanwhile, meade has made several mistakes, which crossed the army a lot. So there
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