...://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> General Meade at once began the sending of his forces so much eastward that we knew that any movement against Lee's rear or the Confederate communications via Harper's Ferry had been given up. The evening of June 28, 1865, the whole army was at or near Frederick, Md. In his dispatch that evening Meade said: I propose to move this army to-morrow in the direction of Yo...