When you consider the war's most dramatic moments, one must be the scene at
Lee's headquarters the night of the Battle of Sharpsburg. Lee had summoned the
members of his high command to a war council outside his headquarters tent. It
was virtually a "who's who" of the principal commanders of the Army of Northern
Virginia. Jackson was there. So was Longstreet. And A.P. Hill, John Bell Hood, D.H.
Hill, Jubal Early and others. What a great opportunity to paint a strategy meeting
of Lee and his officers!

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