A history of the United States . ssed the Potomac atHarpers Ferry, and, advancing across Maryland into Pennsyh 416 THE CAMPAIGNS Ot 1863. [§524 vania, threatened, not only the rear of Washington, but alsothe cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia. Hooker followed, keeping at the rightof Lee, between Har-pers Ferry and Wash-ington, and movingrapidly northward forthe protection of thethreatened cities. TheUnion army was re-enforced from everyquarter. On the 28thof June, Hooker wassuperseded by Gen-eral George G. Meade,^of Pennsylvania, asoldierly officer who,though uniformly suc-cessful as a divis
A history of the United States . ssed the Potomac atHarpers Ferry, and, advancing across Maryland into Pennsyh 416 THE CAMPAIGNS Ot 1863. [§524 vania, threatened, not only the rear of Washington, but alsothe cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia. Hooker followed, keeping at the rightof Lee, between Har-pers Ferry and Wash-ington, and movingrapidly northward forthe protection of thethreatened cities. TheUnion army was re-enforced from everyquarter. On the 28thof June, Hooker wassuperseded by Gen-eral George G. Meade,^of Pennsylvania, asoldierly officer who,though uniformly suc-cessful as a divisionand corps com-mander, had as yetoccupied only asubordinate pushed his force of about ninety-three thousand rapidlyforward and concentrated it in the neighborhood of Gettys-burg, taking up his position on a crest of hills in a circularline south and east of Gettysburg, on what is known as Ceme-tery Ridge. The Confederate line of about seventy thousandoccupied the hills opposite, on Seminary Ridge.^ At the Union. General George G. Meade. 1 Born at Cadiz, Spain, 1815; died, 1872. Graduated at West Point, 1835;fought in Seminole and Mexican Wars; commanded a brigade under McClellanin the Peninsula, where he was wounded; commanded a division at Antietaniand Fredericksburg, and a corps at Chancellorsville; superseded Hooker inJune, 1863; won the grea^t victoiy of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, and 3; commandedthe Army of the Potomac, under Grant, till the close of the war. 2 The figures here given are those reached after a careful computation ofthe entire strength of both armies, with the additions and reductions between 525] EASTERN CAMrAIGNS. 417 right was Gulps Hill, and at the left were two hills, knownas Round Top and Little Eound Top. Tims situated, botharmies made ready for the most crucial battle of the ^ Meade should be over-whelmed, the cities of the rNorth would be at Leesmercy, and the Confederacywould, in all probabilitybe recognized in Europe;while if L
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