Lincoln's famous quote to McDowell about you are green, but they are green also. Do you agree w/ the logic? Was it really a coin flip and probably a risk worth taking? Could it very well have gone the other way with a rout of the Confederate army?
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Given that the USA was being asked to go on the offensive, was McDowell right regarding both sides being green NOT a push given the additional challenges of being the attacker?
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Given that the USA was being asked to go on the offensive, was McDowell right regarding both sides being green NOT a push given the additional challenges of being the attacker?