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The Union - very much so.
Pennsylvania had a strong free-soil tradition, and its border with slave-owning Maryland was the Mason-Dixon line that separated North from South.
Lee placed a high priority on invading Pennsylvania, both for strategic and symbolic reasons.
When he twice failed in this, at Antietam and then Gettysburg, he would shake his first at the sky. "Even the skies are against me in Pennsylvania!" he wailed.
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