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somehow get two or three of them into the Union.
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It was a strategy,
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and not a blueprint written in stone
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for the way Reconstruction would always be.
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But to the Radical Republicans,
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they viewed this as a much more far-reaching transformation
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in a building really of a new nation,
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when and if they could win the war.
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They really were at an impasse.
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Now you know from our previous lectures and your reading
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that the fall of Mobile Bay on August 5,
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the same day as the Wade-Davis Manifesto,