I'd ask the Irish, why didn't you guys just fish during the potato famine, it is an island right?
Seriously though my question would be for General Lee before Pickett's Charge,
You are now between the Yankee army and Washington DC, why not pull back towards the capital and make the Feds attack you on ground of your choosing?
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