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And that's really interesting because if you read diaries from the Richmond area - mostly female - they believed with the utmost sincerity - that Lee was never going to be defeated, even though they were barely subsisting, just from reading these papers. I had wondered about the quotes or paraphrases they would mention in their diaries. Yet they didn't believe with their own eyes. It shows I guess we can all be taken in.