"Lee, by the summer of 1863, had come to believe that he was invincible, and so was the Army of Northern Virginia. The record would almost invite that when you see how they had pummeled one Union General after another, and defeated, or at least fought to a draw the Army of the Potomac almost on every battle up to that point. And Lee really did think that if he asked his boys to do something, they would do it, that they would do anything. He had come by Gettysburg then to believe in his invincibility and that of his men. And it was his doom."
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The Civil War (documentary)
The Civil War is a nine-episode series created by Ken Burns about The American Civil War, which was produced by PBS affiliate WETA-TV (with Burns company) and first screened in 1990. The narrator was David McCullough.
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