1	Lee v. Pope: The Second Manassas Campaign
2	Confederate Strategy, April 1861-May 1862 Perimeter Strategy Defensive strategically Defensive operationally Attempt to cover all possible avenues of approach Cedes initiative to the Federals Results Middle and West Tennessee Lost Union coastal enclaves in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana Manassas, Fredericksburg, Yorktown, and Norfolk lost McClellan at the gates of Richmond
3	To the Gates of Richmond: The failure of Confederate perimeter strategy in the East.
4	General Robert E. Lee b. Stratford Hall, 1807 USMA, 1828 Corps of Engineers, 1828-55 Mexican War, 1846-48 USMA Superintendent, 1852-55 Cavalry, 1855-61 Harpers Ferry, 1859 “Granny Lee?”
5	Confederate Strategy, June-September 1862 “Offensive-Defensive” Strategic defensive Operational offensive Diminish posts to concentrate forces in field armies Take the initiative Results Richmond saved Central and Northern Virginia regained Union offensives stalled in the West
6	The Army of Northern Virginia
7	Maj. Gen. John Pope b. Louisville, 1822 USMA, 1842 Topographical Engineers, 1838-61 Mexican War, 1846-48 Missouri Army of Virginia
8	The Union High Command 9 August 1862
9	The Union High Command 28 August 1862
10	Pope’s Proclamation 14 July 1862 …Let us understand each other. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies; from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found; whose policy has been attack and not defense….I have been called here to pursue the same system and to lead you . . . I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases, which I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of “taking strong positions and holding them,” of “lines of retreat,” and of “bases of supplies.” Let us discard such ideas…. Let us study the probably lines of retreat of our opponents and leave our own to take care of ourselves. Let us look before us, and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.
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