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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
ements are being made. . . . I am in doubt as to the direction he [Lee] will take, but probably the one of last year, however desperate it may appear.—Dispatch from Hooker to Secretary Stanton. The close of May found the army ready to launch on this seductive but fatal adventure. II. manoeuvres to disengage Hooker. In execution of this project the first object with Lee was to disengage Hooker from the Rappahannock, and with this view secret movements were begun on the 3d of June. Mc-Laws' division, of Longstreet's corps, that day left Fredericksburg for Culpepper Courthouse, and at the same time Hood's division, of Longstreet's corps, which, since its arrival from Richmond, had been encamped on the Rapidan, marched to the same place. On the 4th and 5th Ewell's corps was given the same direction. Meanwhile, the corps of A. P. Hill was left to occupy the lines of Fredericksburg. Lee: Report of the Gettysburg Campaign. Made aware of some movement in the enemy's camp, bu