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What if Meade had let Burnside stick with his original plan of sending in the trained colored troops first at the Battle of the Crater? Would it have turned the battle to a Union Victory; would Petersburg, and thus the Confederacy, have fallen earlier? What are the effects? On reputations (of Burnside, the USCT, etc)? On Lincoln's re-election? On Reconstruction? On anything else I'm not thinking of?

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