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cizing your commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you.”
In short: Lincoln had chosen Hooker for only one reason—victory over Lee.
By late April 1863 an exuberant Hooker had his army of 150,000 men carefully crossing upriver fords of the Rappahannock and Kapidan Rivers to encircle the rear of Lee’s lesser force of 61,000 men which was still encamped around . Fredericksburg. Hookers movements at first caught Lee off guard, but soon
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