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Guest Post by Michael C. C. Adams Before Gettysburg and Vicksburg, we had Cincinnati and, more especially, Sharpsburg, Maryland. The repulse of Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant in early July 1863 are often seen as marking the high tide of the Confederacy. Yet any real hope…