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Mid-afternoon, North Anna, May 24, 1864. Lee's plan to split the Union army had worked. The wedge created by Lee's infamous "inverted V" position had tricked Grant into crossing the North Anna River on either side of the Confederate position. Wright's V Corps and Warren's VI Corps had crossed the North Anna to the west of the entrenched Confederates, while Hancock's II Corps had crossed the river to the east. The Army of Northern Virginia and two river crossings separated between Grant's two wings. Hancock's Corps was in a particularly vulnerable position. But alas, the opportunity to stike a devastating blow at Hancock drifted away into history when Lee became incapacitated by dysentery. But "what if" Lee's health had not kept him from his duties? Lee had nearly 30,000 troops with which he could "strike them a blow". Could he have trapped and destroyed Grant's best Corps at the North Anna River? As an aide to Grant put it, "Lee now had one of those opportunities that occur but rarely in war, but which, in the grasp of a master, make or mar the fortunes of armies and decide the results of campaigns."
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