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Major General Trimble was one of General Lee's staff officers at the time of the raid into Pennsylvania. He recored notes that indicate that Lee had planned a major effort with regards to his raid into Pennsylvania. Trimble's recorded notes prior to the raid indicate that Lee was confident he would be able to concentrate his army's forces against a tired, hard marching and strung out Union army. Even more so when he learned that the Army of the Potomac had its 4th commanding general, George Meade.

Lee's plans called for using a concentrated force to defeat in detail, remnants of Union army units as they tried to reach the Army of Northern Virginia. This would dive one corps back upon another, causing panic and no time to plan a counterattack.

The virtual destruction of the Army of the Potomac, as Lee planned, would have made an impact on the war that would be impossible to fully imagine.

As was seen, General Trimble's notes were just that, only notes. The Gettysburg campaign was a Confederate defeat.

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