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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 faroast 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 actionwith a squadron of Delaware horse—to Union Mills, and encamped there onthe 29th. During the night, he learned that the Federal army was still be-tween him and Lee on its march north,nnd his scouts reported its cavalry in

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strong force at Littlestown, barring hisdirect road to Gettysburg ; wherefore,

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

About 10 a. M. Chambliss, reaching Han-over, found Kilpatrick passing throughHie town and attacked him, but wasdriven out before Hampton or Lee couldoorue to his support. Stuart’s men andhorses were now nearly worn out; he wasEncumbered with a large captured train;a junction with some part of Lee’s army^as a necessity, and he made a nighthiarch for York, only to learn that Early

had left the day before. Pushing on to Carlisle, he found that Ewell was§°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 Ud burned the Government barracks. That night he learned that Lee’s armyw as concentrating at Gettysburg , and left for that place next day. ThusEnded a raid which greatly embarrassed Lee, and by which the services ofthree cavalry brigades were, in the critical period of the campaign, exchanged

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md therefore believing that Hooker was stillle afternoon of the 28th, ordered Longstreetjarrisburg; but late that night one of Long-*'ted that the Federal army had crossed the’joker and was at Frederick. Lee thereuponimy to Cashtown, which place Heth reachedht Pettigrew’s brigade on to Gettysburg ,of shoes. Nearing this place,

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