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from the West on July 1, 1863,
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because they'd heard there were shoes in Gettysburg.
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And they were confiscating, by the way, everything--
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cattle, hogs, food,
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everything they could take from Pennsylvania farms.
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And rather than tapping into war weariness in the North,
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what Lee accomplished was to
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stimulate resistance in the North.
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Nothing like an army
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invading your land and stealing your animals
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to cause you some consternation.
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Lee's army also took scores of free blacks,