Meade immediately ordered the pursuit of Lee's army of 75,000, which by then had crossed the Potomac River into Maryland and marched on ...
... third day of the Battle of Gettysburg in southern Pennsylvania. During the early morning hours Confederate General Robert E. Lee ordered ...
Thus began the Battle of Gettysburg, and Lee and Meade ordered their massive armies to converge on the impromptu battle site. The Union cavalrymen ...
Despite General Lee's order to avoid a general engagement until his entire army was concentrated, Hill decided to mount a ...
George Gordon Meade, continued the army's movement northward, following orders to keep his army between Lee and Washington, D.C. Fully aware of Lee's ...
Lee ordered Longstreet to launch a surprise attack with two divisions straddling, and guiding on, ...
After disobeying Robert E. Lee's orders to avoid a general engagement at Gettysburg, Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell received an order to 'press those people.
Robert E. Lee. Because Gettysburg was Lee's fatal blunder. He ordered repeated assaults on fortified Union positions on high ground. What was ...
By the time of the Gettysburg Campaign during the summer of 1863, J.E.B. Stuart had ...
... battle of Gettysburg, it was in many ways an accident. The commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Gen. Robert E. Lee, ordered Lt. Gen.