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of the free States. If the general wants provisions, let him go and look for them in Pennsylvania, said the chief of the bureau of subsistence, it is reported, in reply to a demand for rations addressed to that department by General Lee. In a purely military point of view this step was perhaps imprudent; but in the situation of the two adversaries, policy, being for once in perfect accord with the popular sentiment, counselled the attempt. Chapter 2: Brandy Station. ON the 3d of June, 1863, Lee put his army in motion. The future of America was about to be decided for ever. This army bore but little resemblance to the brave but undisciplined troops that had defended the Manassas plains two years before. It had even become, through its organization and discipline, its experience in fighting and marching, much superior to what it was the preceding year, when its chieftain led it into Maryland for the first time. The extreme confidence that animated it, as we have obser