Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . er quickly perceived thatmost of the rebel army had disappeared from his front, but it was a mystery tohim where it had gone. A reconnoissance developed the direction taken by thetwo missing corps. Unsuspicious of the grand project that was in the mind ofthe Confederate commander, Hooker moved down the Shenandoah Valley, taking the same course as Lee, butwith the Blue Ridge Mountains be-tween them. LEE S PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . er quickly perceived thatmost of the rebel army had disappeared from his front, but it was a mystery tohim where it had gone. A reconnoissance developed the direction taken by thetwo missing corps. Unsuspicious of the grand project that was in the mind ofthe Confederate commander, Hooker moved down the Shenandoah Valley, taking the same course as Lee, butwith the Blue Ridge Mountains be-tween them. LEE S PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS. Passing through the defiles intliis range, Lee dropped down onMilroy at Winchester before hedreamed of danger. Most of his7,000 men were captured, but Mil-loy and a few escaped by a hurriedllight at night. All doubt now had\anished as to the intentions of Lee;lie was aiming for Pennsylvania, atI lie head of a powerful, vyell-organ-i/.ed army; Washington and prob-;il)ly Philadelphia were in only check that could block itsway was the Army of the Potomac,nnd Hooker lost no time in reached Fairfax Court-House onthe night of the 14th, thus placing. HOBEBT E. LFE. Confederate cttmniaiider-in-chief at Gettysburg. (lb07-lS70). himself on tlie flank of Ewell. The Confederates, however, held the mountainpasses secuiely and nothing effective could be done. On the 22d the headquarters of Lee were at Beverly, ten miles from Win-chester, with which Lee kept up communication through A. P. Hills cor^js,which was between Culpeper and Front Royal. Ewell, without hesitation,forded the Potomac into Maryland, while his cavalry pushed on into Pennsyl-vania. By this time the government was so alarmed that President Lincoln, on the15th of June, called by proclamation on the governors of Ohio, Pennsylvania, MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL 3IEADE. 349 Miiryland, and West Virginia to furnisli 100,(X)0 militia fur the protection oftiiose States. Pennsylvania, the one in greatest danger, was so
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