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General Lee had waken well before the break of dawn on the second day of battle at Gettysburg. He returned to Seminary Ridge but could not formulate a plan of action until the light of dawn gave him a clear view of the battlefield. Whatever that specific plan might have been, Lee's mindset was one of conducting a set of offensive operations against Meade's Army of the Potomac.

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