Following Confederate successes in the Battle of Gettysburg on the day preceding, today Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee orders his Army of Northern Virginia to attack the enemy. Along a six-mile front, attack after attack is made upon the Union forces fortified on high ground to the south and east. Union Gen. George G. Meade…
The armies of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Union Gen. George G. Meade have been moving closer and closer to one another in the past week. Today, they collide west of Gettysburg, a town where several highways intersect. The initial contact between Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and Meade’s Army of the Potomac takes…
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s invasion of Pennsylvania today meets resistance in the town of Hanover. The encounter begins when Confederate Major Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry attacks a Union cavalry regiment and forces the federal forces to retreat through the streets of Hanover. The Confederate retreat, however, proves to be momentary. A brigade arrives to…