The Battle of Gettysburg 1863

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Drake Samuel Adams. The Battle of Gettysburg 1863

I. Gettysburg1

II. THE MARCH INTO PENNSYLVANIA

III. FIRST EFFECTS OF THE INVASION

IV. REYNOLDS

V. THE FIRST OF JULY

VI. CEMETERY HILL

VII. THE SECOND OF JULY

VIII. THE SECOND OF JULY —Continued

IX. THE THIRD OF JULY

X. THE RETREAT

XI. THINGS BY THE WAY

APPENDIX. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC AS IT FOUGHT AT GETTYSBURG

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It is in no way essential to relate in detail how Lee's army, slipping away from ours on the Rappahannock,7 and after brushing out of its path our troops posted in the Shenandoah Valley, had been crossing the Potomac into Maryland since the 21st of June, by way of the Cumberland Valley, without firing a shot.8

A very unusual thing in war it is to see an army which has just been acting strictly on the defensive suddenly elude its adversary for the purpose of carrying the war into that enemy's country! It marks a new epoch in the history of that war, and it supposes wholly altered conditions. In this particular instance Lee's moves were so bold as almost to savor of contempt.

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This division (Early's) passed through Gettysburg on the 26th,14 reaching York the next day. On the 28th his advance arrived at the Susquehanna too late to save the railway bridge from the flames.15 On this same day Ewell's advance encamped within four miles of Harrisburg, where some skirmishing took place.

Here, then, was Lee firmly installed within striking distance of the capital of the great Keystone State, and by no means at so great a distance from Philadelphia or Washington as not to make his presence felt in both cities at once.

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