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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xvii. Lee's army on free soil-gettysburg. (search)
her on the northern slope of a hill; with a college and other edifices on the opposite hill, which rises directly from the little run at its foot. Part of our cavalry advance, under Gen. Kilpatrick, pushed out from Frederick, June 28. moving north-west through Liberty and Taneytown to Hanover, Pa., where they were considerably astonished June 30. by an attack from Stuart's cavalry — not imagining that there was any enemy within a march of them. A sharp fight ensued, wherein Gen. G. F. Farnsworth's brigade was at first roughly handled, losing 100 men; but Gen. Custer's, which had passed, returned to its aid, and the enemy was beaten off. A similar dash was simultaneously made on the train of another column of our cavalry at Littlestown, but easily repulsed. Meantime, Gen. Buford, with another division, had moved directly upon Gettysburg; where lie encountered July 1. the van of the Rebel army, under Gen. Heth, of Hill's corps, and drove it back on the division, by whom ou