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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 5: invasion of Virginia. (search)
ria or Washington. Another route lay up the peninsula lying between the James and York Rivers, with Fort Monroe and its vicinity as a base for operations. Another way to enter the State was by crossing the upper Potomac at Harper's Ferry and Williamsport, and then on through the great valley of Virginia between the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Mountains; and still another entrance might be effected through the mountain ranges of West Virginia. Norfolk, too, by the sea, had to be watched and prothe midst of arms, Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, was his aid-de-camp. From Patterson's position two routes led to the Valley of Virginia, one via Frederick, Md., across the Potomac at Harper's Ferry, the other by Hagerstown, Md., crossing at Williamsport and thence to Martinsburg. Patterson wisely selected the latter route, because it was a flank movement on his enemy at Harper's Ferry, who could present no obstacle to a successful passage to the Potomac. He therefore marched his army to Hag
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 10: Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg. (search)
battle was to envelop the Confederate flanks-first the left, and then the right-and could he have succeeded in breaking through either of them and gaining the Williamsport road in Lee's rear and cutting him off from the Potomac, his victory would have been decisive. Had General Lee not divined the main struggle would be on his l him the day after the battle. The morning report, dated September 20th, sent by McClellanwhich included the troops at Washington under Banks and 3,500 men at Williamsport, Frederick, and Boonsboroa — showed an aggregate present for duty of 164,359, and an aggregate absent of 105,124, making a total present and absent of 293,798.g impatient, and wondering why McClellan did not promptly obey orders. So he directed his chief of cavalry, Stuart, on October 8th, to cross the Potomac above Williamsport with his cavalry and ascertain McClellan's positions and designs; to enter Pennsylvania, and to do all in his power to impede and embarrass the military operat
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 12: Gettysburg. (search)
ed as could bear transportation, back to the Potomac at Williamsport under a cavalry escort, and was busy in burying his deaeven miles south of Cashtown, being the direct road to Williamsport; but the rain and mud so impeded progress that the rearwn, Md., on the 6th, the same day his trains arrived at Williamsport, a few miles distant. On account of the swollen condite of defense skillfully traced to cover the river from Williamsport to Falling Waters, and confidently awaited the subsidend his flanks in the retreat and had saved his trains at Williamsport from an attack of the Union cavalry before his army reanted to know if they deemed it expedient to move toward Williamsport through Emmittsburg, or if his enemy was retreating, shroyed, the rebellion would be over. While waiting at Williamsport General Lee received the news of the capture (by raidinth the Army of Northern Virginia recrossed the river at Williamsport, and on the pontoon bridge at Falling Water, which had