. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac; . SKETCH OP MANCEUVRES ON GETTYSBCRG. Chambersburg, Ewell was at York and Carlisle, and Lee wasjust on the point of moving his whole force northward tocross the Susquehanna and strike Harrisburg ;* when, learn-mg the aheady mentioned menace, he resolved to concentrateon the east side of the South Mountain range as a diversion ■* Preparations were now made to advance upon Harrisburg ; but on thenight of the 28th information was received from a scout that the Federalarmy, having crossed the Potomac, was advancing nortliward, and that thehead of the coliunn
. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac; . SKETCH OP MANCEUVRES ON GETTYSBCRG. Chambersburg, Ewell was at York and Carlisle, and Lee wasjust on the point of moving his whole force northward tocross the Susquehanna and strike Harrisburg ;* when, learn-mg the aheady mentioned menace, he resolved to concentrateon the east side of the South Mountain range as a diversion ■* Preparations were now made to advance upon Harrisburg ; but on thenight of the 28th information was received from a scout that the Federalarmy, having crossed the Potomac, was advancing nortliward, and that thehead of the coliunn had reached South Moimtain. As our communications 326 CAMPAIGNS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. in favor of his line of retreat, touching which he was Justifi-ably nervous. Accordingly, instead of directing Longstreetand Hill to join Ewell on the intended invasion, he orderedthem to march from Chambersburg, defiling through theSouth Mountain range, towards Gettysburg, distant twentymiles eastward; and he instructed Ewell to countermarchfr
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