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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 24 : the battle of Gettysburg begun (search)
Chapter 24: the battle of Gettysburg begun
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 York.
By a glance at the map it will be seen that this plan was the precise opposite of that of Hooker, as indicated by his dispatches two days before.
The reason for the change was that Lee was reported not only on our side of the Potomac, but as already occupying Chambersburg, Carlisle, and threatening Harrisburg, and having at least a brigade in the town of York.
He did not just then seem to care greatly for his communications, any more than did Hannibal of old after he had once obtained his strong foothold on the Continent of Europe.
Lee had now corn, flour, cattl