. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . the left were giving Lee considerable troubleand anxiety, and to divert attention from that direction, and, ifpossible, compel Grant to relinquish his hold along the lines. CEORGE p. Co. D. and Lieut. Sjd P. \ 118 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT at Petersburg and Richmond and change the campaign nearerto the front at Washington, General Jubal Earlys Corps wasdetached from Lees Armv, and, with additional troops andcavalrv under Rosser, threat
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . the left were giving Lee considerable troubleand anxiety, and to divert attention from that direction, and, ifpossible, compel Grant to relinquish his hold along the lines. CEORGE p. Co. D. and Lieut. Sjd P. \ 118 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT at Petersburg and Richmond and change the campaign nearerto the front at Washington, General Jubal Earlys Corps wasdetached from Lees Armv, and, with additional troops andcavalrv under Rosser, threatened the Capitol at had been the tactics of the commander of the Army ofNorthern Virginia in 1862, and again in 1863, having for itsobject the two-fold purpose of gathering the rich harvest mthe Shenandoah Valley and the withdrawal of the Army of thePotomac from in front of Richmond to the vicinity of Washing-ton. This resulted in 1862 in the Battles of South Mountain andAntietam, and in 1863 in that of Gettysburg ; but General Grantwas now in command of the army, and the authorities at Wash-ington would not allow him tobe interfered with, so when helearned from his scouts thatthe movement down the valleywhich threatened Washingtonand the invasion of the Northwas by Earlys Corps, h
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