CSPAN2 Capitol Hill Hearings August 14, 2013
And thus paralyzing the whole machinery of our government. Captain alfred lee fought at gettysburg and dreaded the prospect of the northern sympathizers with secession, establishing rule over the whole chain of cities, tearing up the railroads, destroying supplies, cutting off reinforcements. As it was, new york city blew up in draft riots 10 days after the battle. If robert lee had been crossing with the army of Northern Virginia, the susquehanna on that day, instead as he was crossing in retreat, that might now have been the army of Northern Virginia, which was called in to restore order in ...