Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

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Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333392857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Excerpt from Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg The Confederate government had always been eager to carry the contest into Northern territory. It was satisfying to the natural pride of the South, and it was thought that some experience of the evils of war might incline the Northern mind to peace. Lee was ordered to march into Pennsylvania. He gathered all the troops at his disposal, and with seventy-five thousand men he crossed the Potomac, and was once more prepared to face the enemy on his own soil. The rich cities of the North trembled. It was not unlikely that he would possess himself of Baltimore and Philadelphia. Could he once again defeat Hooker's army, as he had often done before, no further resistance was possible._ Pennsylvania and New. York were at his mercy. I Lee advanced to'the little Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. (hooker, after marching his army northward, had been relieved of his command. I A battle was near; and in face of the enemy a new commander had to be chosen. Two days before the hostile armies met, General Meade was ap pointed. Meade was an experienced soldier, who had filled with honor the various positions assigned him. It was seemingly a hopeless task which he was now asked to perform. With an oft-defeated army of sixty thousand to seventy thousand men, to whom he was a stranger, he had to meet Lee with his victorious seventy-five thousand. Meade quietly undertook the work appointed to him, and did it, too, like a brave, prudent, unpretending man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.