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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 10 (search)
his time too much reduced from its late losses to authorize so audacious an enterprise. He counted that if he should be able in this situation to seriously cripple Meade, it would exhaust the season of active operations and detain the Army of the Potomac on the frontier for the winter, during which time it would be possible for Lee to still further reen-force from his own command the heavily pressed Confederate Army of the West. In execution of this plan, Lee crossed the Rapidan on Friday, October 9th, and taking circuitous and concealed roads, Lee: Report of Fall Operations in Virginia. passed by way of Madison Courthouse quite to Meade's right. Stuart, with Hampton's cavalry division, moved on the right of the column, while Fitz Hugh Lee's cavalry division, with a detachment of infantry, was left to hold the lines south of the Rapidan and mask the turning movement. The first positive intimation which General Meade had of Lee's intention was an attack made upon his advance