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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 78 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 76 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 64 0 Browse Search
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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 44 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 42 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 38 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 32 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Events leading up to the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
ington and Baltimore, and detain the Federal forces on that side of the mountains to protect those cities. He directed me to countermand the orders to General Ewell and General Hill, and to order the latter to move eastward on the road through Cashtown and Gettysburg, and Ewell to march from Carlisle, so as to form a junction with Hill either at Cashtown or Gettysburg, as circumstances might direct. He ordered General Longstreet to prepare to move the next morning, following Hill. The army mCashtown or Gettysburg, as circumstances might direct. He ordered General Longstreet to prepare to move the next morning, following Hill. The army moved very slowly, and there would have been no difficulty whatever in having the whole of it at Gettysburg by the morning of the 1st of July had we been aware of the movements of the enemy on the other side of the mountains. You will thus see that the movement to Gettysburg was the result of the want of information, which the cavalry alone could obtain for us, and that General Lee was compelled to march through the mountains from Chambersburg eastward without the slightest knowledge of the en
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.20 (search)
he halted. Early was detached and sent east through the Cashtown pass in the South mountain, to York. What the letters General Lee never intended to go to Gettysburg, but that Cashtown was his expected point of concentration. General Heth, G Who was responsible. General Longstreet now says that Cashtown was the place where General Lee ordered the concentrationwas not. Hill, with Heth's and Pender's Divisions, was at Cashtown on the evening of July 30th. General Lee, with Longstreetavalry, and artillery—was on the march, and converging on Cashtown on the morning of July 1st. They could all have reached would have been badly beaten, but Ewell, on the march to Cashtown, received a note from Hill, and hearing the firing, came as in force, and ought to have retired, and gone back to Cashtown. The trouble was, Hill had found out too much. It is plliver battle on ground he had not chosen, or fall back to Cashtown, leaving his dead and wounded on the field, and giving th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
advance of General A. P. Hill's Corps, moving from Chambersburg, along the Cashtown pike, bivouacked in the vicinity of Cashtown on the 30th of June. Having learned that a much-needed supply of shoes could be obtained in the town of Gettysburg, a fume the responsibility of precipitating an engagement without orders, Pettigrew quickly fell back on the main force near Cashtown. Thereupon, with the approval of General Hill, Heth concluded to lead his entire division to Gettysburg the next mornmilitia, Heth at once came in contact with Buford's Cavalry, deployed in front of Gettysburg, and covering the road from Cashtown, which he stubbornly defended, compelling the Confederates to deploy into line and advance with caution. Buford was sool reports that he was directed to co-operate with Ewell, and, accordingly, on the 29th, moved General Heth's Division to Cashtown, some eight miles from Gettysburg, following on the morning of the 30th with the division of General Pender. General Lo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Longstreet-Gettysburg controversy [from the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, February 16, 1896.] (search)
reached York he found that Early had been ordered back to Cashtown, the appointed rendezvous of the army. About all this Coe 29th General Lee ordered a concentration of the army at Cashtown, a village at the eastern base of the mountain, Hill's Corps was in advance; he reached Cashtown June 30th. That night Hill and Heth heard that there was a force of the enemy at Ge that the enemy was in force, and should have returned to Cashtown—i. e., if he only went to make a reconnoissance. Hill no He had now found it. Hill would have been driven back to Cashtown if Ewell had not come to his support. With Rodes's and Eefore a few miles north of Gettysburg, and had started to Cashtown when he received a note from Hill telling him he was movi division of his army was on the march, and converging on Cashtown. That night the whole army—infantry, cavalry, and artillery—would have been concentrated at Cashtown, or in supporting distance, if this rash movement on Gettysburg had not precip<