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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
ue Ridge, under instructions to harass Hooker as much as possible in crossing the Potomac, and then pass into Maryland, either east or west of the Blue Ridge, and take position on the right of the advancing column. This would have put him in his proper place to watch the Union cavalry thrown out on the left of the Army of the Potomac. Stuart, however, finding himself unable to impede the passage of the Potomac, advanced eastward as far as Fairfax Courthouse, and then crossed the Potomac at Seneca. But Hooker having crossed above, Stuart found the entire Union army interposed between him and Lee, so that he was compelled to make a wide detour on the exterior line: marching by way of Westminster, he advanced to Carlisle, but did not reach that point till the 1st of July, the day after Ewell had left for Gettysburg, to which point he was then immediately summoned by Lee, who had during all these movements been deprived of the important services of his cavalry. From the exposition a