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Lee has some cavalry with him but made his decisions on how to utilize his cavalry assets based on the false assumption that the Army of the Potomac would react slower than it did. Lee also sent Stuart on his mission under the same false view. This is just my opinion, but I do not believe that Lee could convince himself that he faced the whole Army of the Potomac on the second day at Gettysburg. Had Lee believed that the Army of Potomac was reacting so quickly he would have keep his army more concentrated during the invasion of Pennsylvania. Lee conducted some fine campaigns, but he underestimated the speed at which Meade and the Army of the Potomac would respond to his invasion.