 Complete the following phrase:  Realizing that Washington was left unprotected due to Grants siege of Petersburg, Lee detached a corps under the command of Lieutet General Jubal A. Early, hoping it would force the Union army to send forces to pursue him. If Early could capture Washington, the Civil War would not have ended, but the Confederates would have embarrassed the Union and deeply wounded northern morale. Early, with 15,000 seasoned troops, marched north down the Shedoah Valley, defeated Union Major General Lew Wallace at the Monocacy, and following the 