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I have not read Mosby book, but just on the face of the reports of the Union pursuit of Lee by Hooker and later Meade, there simply was no room for Stuart to conduct operations between the Union Army and the mountains. If Stuart couldn't do that, he wouldn't have been able to communicate with Lee as he would have been force to travel farther east than was planned to get around the yankee's as they moved north.

Everybody seem to think that Stuart was out on a glory ride. But if you examine the tactical situation the only thing Stuart could have done differently would have been to lead at the head of Lee's columns rather than to try to screen the column from the east side of the mountains. especially with the Confederate Infantry taking responcibility for guarding the mountain passes.

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