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On their way to the Battle of Gettysburg...
On their way to the Battle of Gettysburg...
Item # 724879
June 25, 1863
NEW YORK TIMES, June 25, 1863
* Invasion of Maryland & Pennsylvania
* Confederates advance towards Gettysburg
* General Robert E. Lee's rebel forces
* History about to be made (historic)
* Less than a week away
The front page has some nice & detailed reporting on the advance of the Confederates into the North, with first column heads including: "THE REBELS IN PENNYSLVANIA" "Gen. Ewell Invading the State in Force" "Jenkins' Cavalry In Advance" "His Force Near Carlisle" "The Rebels Plundering The Country" and more. (see images)
There are other Civil War headings on the front page, the inside pages, and the back page as well.
complete with all 8 pages, nice condition.
background: On June 25, 1863, as the New York Times was hitting doorsteps with reports of a "rebel plundering," General Robert E. Lee was personally supervising the crossing of his final two infantry corps—those of James Longstreet and A.P. Hill—over the Potomac River at Williamsport and Shepherdstown, completing the transition of his 75,000-man army onto Northern soil. While the newspaper accurately placed General Richard Ewell’s advance elements near Carlisle, threatening the state capital at Harrisburg, it could not have known that Lee was currently "blind"; his primary reconnaissance officer, Jeb Stuart, had just begun a controversial, wide-swinging raid that cut off communication between the cavalry and Lee’s headquarters. Meanwhile, the Union Army of the Potomac, still under General Joseph Hooker for three more days, was frantically crossing the river at Edwards Ferry in Maryland to stay between Lee and Washington, D.C. This created a high-stakes race where neither commander knew exactly where the other was, setting the stage for the accidental collision at the Gettysburg crossroads just six days later.
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