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Rebels advancing towards Gettysburg...
Rebels advancing towards Gettysburg...
Item # 722497
June 17, 1863
THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 17, 1863
* Invasion of Maryland & Pennsylvania
* Rebels advance towards Gettysburg
* History about to be made (historic)
This Genuine newspaper has a Wealth of Civil War reporting from during Abraham Lincoln's administration. Among the one column on the Civil War are: "THE REBEL INVASION" "The Rebels Reported Moving on Harrisburgh" "The Pennsylvania Troops Intrenching" "Appeals From Gov. Curtin For Aid" and more. (see images) More inside.
Complete in eight pages. This issue is not fragile as newsprint from this era was made of cotton and linen rags, allowing them to remain very pliable and easy to handle. In very nice, clean condition.
AI notes: On June 16, 1863, General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was advancing northward in a dispersed but coordinated movement toward Pennsylvania, setting the stage for the Gettysburg Campaign; Richard S. Ewell’s Second Corps, having already crossed the Potomac, was the most advanced element and was concentrating around Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, with its divisions spread across south-central Pennsylvania gathering supplies and threatening the Susquehanna River line, while A.P. Hill’s Third Corps moved north through the lower Shenandoah Valley near Martinsburg, preparing to cross the Potomac, and James Longstreet’s First Corps followed farther south near Winchester and Berryville, Virginia, delayed by logistics and the need to guard mountain passes; meanwhile, J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry was largely absent on a wide-ranging ride around the Union army, depriving Lee of accurate intelligence on Federal movements, and although Gettysburg itself was not yet an objective, the Confederate advance on this date reflected Lee’s strategy of living off Northern resources, drawing the Union army away from Virginia, and positioning his widely separated corps to converge deeper in Pennsylvania.
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