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It acheved its main aim - to prevent Lee from invading Pennsylvania, and to score a Union win, to give Lincoln the credibility to issue his Emancipation Proclamation.

But Lincoln believed that McClellan should have been able to destroy Lee's army outright, and fired him after months of disappointing performance.

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