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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
bersburg, defiling through the South Mountain range, towards Gettysburg, distant twenty miles eastward; and he instructed Ewell to countermarch from York and Carlisle on the same point. These movements were begun on the morning of Monday, the 29th of June. It was not until the night of the 30th, after the army had made two marches, that General Meade became satisfied that Lee, apprised of his movement, had loosed his hold on the Susquehanna and was concentrating his forces east of the South Gettysburg into a historic immortality as the scene of the mightiest encounter of modern days. While the army was marching northward, Buford's division of cavalry was thrown out well on the left flank; and moving from near Middleburg on the 29th of June, it occupied Gettysburg at noon of the following day—the day before Reynolds was directed on that point. Passing through Gettysburg, Buford pushed out in reconnoissances west and north, over the routes on which it was supposed Lee's army was