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The Battle of North Anna is often described as a great lost opportunity for Lee to inflict a decisive defeat on Grant. Through skillful maneuvering, the Army of Northern Virginia had effectively isolated the Army of the Potomac into three sections, none of which could come to the immediate support of the other. There are some who say that it was only because Lee was incapacitated by a serious illness that the Confederates failed to concentrate against one of the isolated sections of the Army of the Potomac and destroy it. Others, however, think that any Confederate attack would have failed anyway and that Grant was in no real danger.

What does the board think? Was the Battle of North Anna River a real lost opportunity on the part of the Confederacy or is its potential as a POD overblown?
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