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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Mede's official report of the battle of Gettysburg . (search)
Mede's official report of the battle of Gettysburg.
Gen. Meade's official report of the battle of Gettysburg is published in the Northern papers.
We yesterday gave a summary of the results as stated by him, and to-day publish, as a very interesting matter of history, his report.
He says:
The Confederate army, which was commanded by Gen. R. E. Lee.
was estimated at over one hundred thousand strong.
All that army had crossed the Potomac river and advanced up the Cumberland Valley.
Reliable intelligence placed his advance thus:--Ewell's corps on the Susquehanna, Harrisburg, and Columbia.
Longstreet's corps at Chambersburg, and Hill's corps between that place and Cashtown.
The 28th of June was spent in ascertaining the positions and strength of the different corps of the army, but principally in bringing up the cavalry which had been covering the rear of the army in its passage over the Potomac, and to which a large increase had just been made from the force previo