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For months the Confederate media and people denied there was a defeat in Pennsylvania. Well-informed Confederates, like chief of ordnance Josiah Gorgas, were crestfallen:  

For months the Confederate media and people denied there was a defeat in Pennsylvania. Well-informed Confederates, like chief of ordnance Josiah Gorgas, were crestfallen:  

:"Yesterday we rode on the pinnacle of success; today absolute ruin seems to be our portion.  The Confederacy totters to its destruction."<ref>James M. McPherson, [http://books.google.com/books?id=-uuEA7xIUHUC&pg=PA665&lpg=PA665&dq=%22Yesterday+we+rode+on+the+pinnacle+of+success%22&source=web&ots=MPWaZ6Et94&sig=r36pJL9cEHLMUzd9enNAkJ2hkkk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result ''Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era'' (1988)  online p. 665]</ref>

:"Yesterday we rode on the pinnacle of success; today absolute ruin seems to be our portion.  The Confederacy totters to its destruction."<ref>James M. McPherson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=-uuEA7xIUHUC&pg=PA665&lpg=PA665&dq=%22Yesterday+we+rode+on+the+pinnacle+of+success%22&source=web&ots=MPWaZ6Et94&sig=r36pJL9cEHLMUzd9enNAkJ2hkkk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result ''Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era'' (1988)  online p. 665]</ref>

Lee's invasion and his seizure of free blacks, who were shipped south and sold into slavery, had the unintended effect of mobilizing northern Republicans and tarring the peace Democrats as traitorous "Copperheads" who refused even to resist the invasion of their homes.  Antiwar protests occasionally turned  

Lee's invasion and his seizure of free blacks, who were shipped south and sold into slavery, had the unintended effect of mobilizing northern Republicans and tarring the peace Democrats as traitorous "Copperheads" who refused even to resist the invasion of their homes.  Antiwar protests occasionally turned