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me army in maryianaj is not inappropriate, I inunless it be too mild.No one frith that part of the^arrny left near Chamberaburg suspected on,The morning of the 1st iost.t that the great battle would begin on that day. I was sitting on the wet ground with my^back tgalnst a tree writing to you and •your readers* when Gen. Lee and his escort passed by in the direction of Caahtown and Gettysburg. He seemed to snuff the battle in the breeze, and for the first time it occurred tome that the enemy was* approaching onr lines.In a few minutes Anderson’s division of:Hill’s•corps marched down the same road, * followedan hour or two later by Johnson’s division of .Ewell’s corps, which had retraced its etepn^rom Sbippentburg. In 'the course of the morning orders game for Longstreet’s corps, except Pickett’s division left behind at Chamberaburg,to follow on in the same direction,*a^soon nsGen. Ewell’s train, sent back from Cairlkle, should pass. This was an immense train, as long cl most as the tail of a comet, and far more ominous, of evif. It occupied four hours-In passing, and moved .so slowly through the Cashtown Gap* (in the South Mountain) that Longstreet’^corps was delayed until near-midnight in reaching a point four miles distant from the battle ground. Pender’s and Heth’s
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Savannah Republican
Savannah, Georgia, US
Mon, Jul 27, 1863
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