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…
Colonel William S. Christian, a physician and Baptist layman now commanding the 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment of of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia that is invading Northern soil, today writes to his wife of their advance northward. Camp near Greenwood, Pa., June 28, 1863 My own darling Wife : I have…