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*Blocks your path*

What heck did you just say about me, you misguided fellow American? I'll have you know I graduated middle of my class at West Point, and I've been involved in numerous logistical planning sessions, and I have over 3000 confirmed miles of railroads i've built. I am trained in logistics and I'm the top organizer of artillery in the entire Union Army. You are nothing to me but another wayward fellow American. I will slowly fortify my position while reinforcing my reserves the likes of which you have never seen. You think you can get away with retreating from me? Yes you can, i don't want anyone to get hurt. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of railroad executives across the Union and telegraph lines are being hung right now. I am the immovable wall that will just stand there and thwart you. You're in need of uniforms, rifles and shoes kid. I can be in one place, all the time, and I can out supply you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my pen. Not only am I extensively trained in logistics, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Army of the Potomac and I will use it to its full extent to educate you as to why you are wrong to fight me, you misguided fellow citizen. If only you could have known what unholy logistical build up your little "clever" rebellion was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have have looked to your own supply lines. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you fools. I will build fortifications and field hospitals and you will envy them. I hope you guys come out ok from this war and as many of you get home as possible.

>My side has a larger population, more resources, and will ultimately win if it's a long, drawn out war of attrition
>Therefore I will play it safe and be cautious, whilst my opponent knows he needs a dramatic victory and will need to make audacious moves. The only real way I can lose is to also do something risky and fuck it all up.
What was wrong with this strategy? He seems to have sucked at an operational level (not really something the general should be micromanaging too much anyway), but as a grand strategy what was wrong with the Union being cautious and waiting for Lee to fuck up?

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Yes, he was a very good General when it came to desert warfare at that particular time and place. He was the skirmish equivalent to pic related's mastery of defensive and siege warfare.