[HandyDandy]

"Find one newspaper article from the time period that even insinuates that."

Try Harpers Weekly, June 27, 1863, pg 403. Here: http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/june/lee-invasion-north.html

Look for "DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. THE INVASION OF THE NORTH." You'll find it towards the bottom of the third column.

Please stop replacing the word "invade" with "conquer". That is just an obvious dodge by you.

[central_va]

Jesus does anyone here know history? The invasion of PA by the Army of NoVa was a political move and not strategic. The purpose was to draw the Army of the Potomac out of VA which it did for all of a few months. The people of the South thought(ignorantly so) Gettysburg was a victory because of that brief respite of union occupation of parts of VA. The secondary reason was to obtain supplies from the so far untouched by war, PA region.

You people really don't know history do you. The South was painfully aware of it's shortcomings from the get go and knew a stalemate was the only positive possible out come.

But lets say the situation was reversed and the South had all the factories and the huge population advantage. Secession means to leave; what purpose would there be to leave the Union and then invade/conquer it? Kind of defeats the whole point of secession.