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round the Army of the Potomac, pass between it and Centreville into Mary-land , and so rejoin Lee; but the movements of that army forced him so fareast that he was compelled to ford the Potomac near Seneca [20 milesabove Washington], on the night of the 27th. Next morning, learning thatHooker had already crossed the river, he marched north by Rockville, wherehe captured a wagon train. Paroling his prisoners and taking the train withhim, he pushed on—through Westminster, where he had a sharp action"with a squadron of Delaware horse—to Union Mills, and encamped there ontlie 29tli. During the night, he learned that the Federal army was still be-tween him and Lee on its march north,a nd liis scouts reported its cavalry instrong force at Littlestown, barring hisdirect road to Gettysburg ; wherefore,

°n the morning of the 30th he movedAcross country to Hanover, Chambliss11 1 front and Hampton in rear of hislong train of two hundred wagons, withihtzhugh Lee well out on his left flank.

About 10 A. m. Chambliss, reaching Han-°Ver, found Kilpatrick passing throughtile town and attacked him, but wasdriven out before Hampton or Lee coulde ome to his support. Stuart’s men andhorses were now nearly worn out; he wasencumbered with a large captured train;

^ junction with some part of Lee’s armyV’as a necessity, and he made a night*narch for York, only to learn that Early

Had left the day before. Pushing on to Carlisle, he found that Ewell wasS°ne, and the place occupied by a militia force under General W. F. Smith. |His demand of a surrender was refused; he threw a few shells into the towna nd burned the Government barracks. That night he learned that Lee’s army^as concentrating at Gettysburg , and left for that place next day. Thusiaded a raid which greatly embarrassed Lee, and by which the services ofHree cavalry brigades were, in the critical period of the campaign, exchangedHa a few hundred prisoners and a wagon train.

Hearing nothing from Stuart, and therefore believing that Hooker was stills °ath of the Potomac, Lee, on the afternoon of the 28th, ordered Longstreeta,1 d A. P. Hill to join Ewell at Harrisburg ; but late that night one of Long-s Heet’s scouts came in and reported that the Federal army had crossed theAver, that Meade had relieved Hooker and was at Frederick. Lee thereuponRanged the rendezvous of his army to Cashtown, which place Heth reached°] A the 29th. Next day Heth sent Pettigrew’s brigade on to Gettysburg ,Fine miles, to procure a supply of shoes. Nearing this place, Pettigrew

1 General Smith commanded the First Division, Department of the Susquehanna, and was chargedwith the protection of Harrisburg.— Editors.

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NORTH-EAST CORNER OP THE MCPHERSON WOODS,WHERE GENERAL REYNOLDS WAS KILLED.PROM A PHOTOGRAPH.