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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
re in a strong position on Cemetery Hill, anxiously awaiting the arrival of re-enforcements from the scattered corps of the Army of the Potomac, then on the way. So ended, in the defeat of the Unionists, the severe engagement July 1, 1868. preliminary to the great battle of Gettysburg, for the cautious Lee, ignorant of the number of the troops of his adversary present or near at hand, prudently awaited the arrival of the rest of his Army. see Lee's Report of the battle of Gettysburg, July 31, 1863. in that Report he says he had not intended to fight a General battle so far away from his base, but being unexpectedly confronted by the Federal Army, it became a matter of difficulty to withdraw through the mountains with the large trains. when General Meade, at Taneytown, thirteen miles distant, heard of the death of Reynolds, he ordered General Hancock, the junior of Howard in rank, to leave his corps with General Gibbons, hasten to Gettysburg, and assume the chief command, at t