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->''They [Neo-Confederates] will continue [[HeroWorshipper to revere Robert E. Lee as the greatest general of the Civil War--perhaps the greatest general in American history]]. But they probably will not appreciate Lee's role in the greatest [[{{Irony}} irony]] of the Civil War--one that goes a long way toward explaining the evolution of [[TheGlovesComeOff Union military policy into Mark Grimsley's "hard war"]]. When Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia on June 1, 1862, the Confederacy was on the verge of defeat. Union conquests in the West had brought more than 50,000 square miles of Confederate territory under Northern control and had caused profound discouragement in the South. General George B. [=McClellan=]'s large Army of the Potomac had approached to within six miles of Richmond. The Confederate government had packed its archives and treasury on trains to evacuate the capital. [[ForWantOfANail If the war had brought an end to the Confederacy in the summer of 1862]], slavery and the antebellum Southern social order would have remained largely intact and the Southern infrastructure relatively undamaged. But Lee's counteroffensive in the Seven Days battles and other major victories during [[HopelessWar the next year ensured a prolongation of the war]], opening the way to the emergence of Grant and Sherman to top Union commands, the abolition of slavery, the "directed severity" of Union policy in 1864–65, and the {{Gotterdammerung}} of the Old South. Here was the irony of Robert E. Lee: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard His success produced the destruction of everything he fought for]].''
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->''They [Neo-Confederates] will continue [[HeroWorshipper to revere Robert E. Lee as the greatest general of the Civil War--perhaps the greatest general in American history]]. But they probably will not appreciate Lee's role in the greatest [[{{Irony}} irony]] of the Civil War--one that goes a long way toward explaining the evolution of [[TheGlovesComeOff Union military policy into Mark Grimsley's "hard war"]]. When Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia on June 1, 1862, the Confederacy was on the verge of defeat. Union conquests in the West had brought more than 50,000 square miles of Confederate territory under Northern control and had caused profound discouragement in the South. General George B. [=McClellan=]'s large Army of the Potomac had approached to within six miles of Richmond. The Confederate government had packed its archives and treasury on trains to evacuate the capital. [[ForWantOfANail If the war had brought an end to the Confederacy in the summer of 1862]], 1862, slavery and the antebellum Southern social order would have remained largely intact and the Southern infrastructure relatively undamaged. But Lee's counteroffensive in the Seven Days battles and other major victories during [[HopelessWar the next year ensured a prolongation of the war]], opening the way to the emergence of Grant and Sherman to top Union commands, the abolition of slavery, the "directed severity" of Union policy in 1864–65, and the {{Gotterdammerung}} of the Old South. Here was the irony of Robert E. Lee: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard His success produced the destruction of everything he fought for]].''
