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Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign

Name: Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign
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ISBN: 9780217946513

John Singleton Mosby

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: two division commanders, Buford and Gregg, were to move to Alilic, a pass of the Bull Run Mountain, and camp there that night; the next day they were to go on to Noland's Ford on the Potomac, where an engineer was laying a pontoon bridge. Every army corps was marching that morning in that direction and expected to cross the Potomac the next day. Hill, Longstreet, and Stuart were still east of the Blue Ridge; Hooker and Pleasanton thought they were in the Shenandoah Valley to follow Ewell, who was then in Maryland. Their ignorance of the where bouts of Lee's army shows how well Stuart, with a curtain of cavalry, had screened its operations. Hooker was evidently greatly surprised when he heard of the collision at Aldie. Pleasanton had expected to stay one night there; he stayed a week. Hooker came to a halt. On the 17th, Butterfield wrote from Fairfax Court-house to Ingalls, Chief Quartermaster at Washington: Since we were not allowed to cross and whip A. P. Hill, while Longstreet and Ewell were moving through Culpeper and Sperryville, we have lost the opportunity of doing a thing which we know to a certainty we could have accomplished. My impression is now that there is not a rebel, excepting scouts, this side of the Shenandoah Valley; that Lee is in as much uncertainty as to our whereabouts and what we are doing as we are to his; that his movement on the upper Potomac is a cover for a cavalry raid on the north side of the river and a movement of his troops further west, where he can turn up at; s weak spot. He had not then heard from Aldie, it we were inside his lines, and was stillunder the delusion that only a cavalry raid was contemplated by the Confederates.1 t BUTTEimELD TO COMMANDING OFFII.'EU, FORCES MOUTH OF THE MONOCACY June 18th (Rec'd 9.10 A. m.) Seize ...

132 pages, Paperback

Published January 8, 2012