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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 16: Gettysburg: the first day (search)
roperty. Hooker moves. Lincoln suggests. Lee in Valley. Stuart proposes raid. conditional consent. Stuart's raid. Carlisle. results of raid. across the Potomac. Hooker relieved. Chambersburg. return of scout. orders. chance encounter. 's report says:— After as little rest as was compatible with the exhausted condition of the command, I pushed on for Carlisle [25 miles to the northwest], where I hoped to find a portion of our army. He arrived before Carlisle in the afternoon. Carlisle in the afternoon. His rations were now entirely exhausted. He desired to levy a contribution, but learned that a considerable force of militia was ambushed in the town, with a view to entrap him on his entrance. He invested the town, threw in some shells, and burned 4000 escorted to Washington the artillery and stores of the post. Meade knew that Ewell's corps was between York and Carlisle, and, on the 29th, put his whole army in motion in that direction, encamping that night on a line extending from Emmits