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difficulty. We had reached Cliambersburg on the 27th of June and we* eremaining there to give the troops rest, when my scout straggled into tk elines on the night of June 28th. He told me he had been to Washing^ 011and had spent his gold freely, drinking in the saloons and getting upon coi^fidential terms with army officers. In that way he had formed a pretty g'°°idea of the general movements of the Federal army and the preparation
to give us battle. The moment lie heard Hooker had started across
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Potomac he set out to find me. He fell in with the Federal army befo iereaching Frederick—his plan being to walk at night and stop duringday in the neighborhood of the troops. He said there were three corps u ea ' 1Frederick when he passed there, one to the right and one to the left, but 1did not succeed in getting the position of the other. This information provemore accurate than we could have expected if we had been relying up'our cavalry. I sent the scout to report to General Lee , who was near.
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suggested in my note that it might be well for us to begin to look toeast of the Blue Ridge. Meade was then in command of the Federal arnWHooker having been relieved. ^
The two armies were then near each other, the Confederates being u 01 'and west of Gettysburg , and the Federals south and south-east of that meo l0
rable field. On the 30th of June we turned our faces toward our enemymarched upon Gettysburg. The Third Corps, under Hill, moved out
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