These facts do not impeach the prowess of the Confederate soldiery, but they illustrate the task imposed on the Army of the Union and they suggest the vast difference in the responsibilities which the invading and the defensive forces were called upon to meet.
Blaine illustrates the differing responsibilities of invading versus defensive forces in the Civil War.
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