Identifier: gettysburgpivota00beec (find matches)
Title: Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Beecham, R. K. (Robert K.), b. 1838
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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front except his own Second Corps,nothing to interfere with his onward march; andEwell had already gathered and stored at conven-ient points the supplies necessary for his army. Nogeneral ever had a more complete and dehghtfulwalk-away; and taking advantage of this mostfavourable situation, he lost not a moment butdashed through the Cumberland Valley, intendingto reach and cross the Susquehanna River and cap-ture Harrisburg. He also directed Ewell to crossthe South Mountain into the Susquehanna Valleyand occupy all the important points and all the roadsleading southward from Harrisburg. In this move-ment Early, with Ewells first division, crossed themountains by the Chambersburg Pike, passingthrough Gettysburg on the afternoon of the twenty-sixth of June, which town he assessed to the tuneof ten thousand dollars; which httle amount hefailed to collect, either on account of the poverty ofthe business men of Gettysburg, or their pullwith the Confederate authorities. We were told by (38)
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LIEUT.-GEN. J. E. B. STUARTCom. Cavalry Corps, Army Northern Virginia

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