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- GLC#
- GLC08899.01
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 18 May 1864
- Author/Creator
- Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893
- Title
- Strategy to save Virginia
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
"The two armies are now too far apart unless we consent to give up Petersburg, and place the capital in jeopardy. If Genl Lee will fall back behind the Chickahominy, engaging the enemy so as to draw fire on him, Genl Beauregard can bring up fifteen thousand men to unite with Breckinridge and fall upon the enemy's flank ... thus rendering Grant's defeat certain and decisive ..."
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