. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . Fight. Qettysburq. 257 28. On the 7th of July the Confederate armyreached the Potomac. Finding the river so muchswollen that the trains with the wounded and prison-ers could not he got across, Lee took up a position ex-tending from Williamsport to Falling Waters, andwaited for the sub-siding of the riverand the constructionof bridges. WhenMeade appeared be
. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . Fight. Qettysburq. 257 28. On the 7th of July the Confederate armyreached the Potomac. Finding the river so muchswollen that the trains with the wounded and prison-ers could not he got across, Lee took up a position ex-tending from Williamsport to Falling Waters, andwaited for the sub-siding of the riverand the constructionof bridges. WhenMeade appeared be-fore this position hecalled a council ofhis officers, who de-clared that the Con-federate position wastoo strong to be at-tacked. Lees sol-diers were eager forbattle, confident ofretrieving their re-pulse at did not at-tack but fortified hisown position. On thenight of the 13th, Leewithdrew his armyacross the Potomacinto Virginia without serious interruption by theFederals.^ 29. In this whole campaign the Confederates hadcaptured 38 cannon. The Federals had captured ^ A sad loss was sustained, however, in the death of the brave GeneralPettigrew, who received his mortal wound in a skirmish with someFederal GENERAL \V. H. F. LEE. 258 Story of the Confederate States. no cannon in battle, but had secured three gunswhich got stuck iii the mud and were abandoned atthe crossing of the Potomac. The Southerners hadfailed at Gettysburg ; but, as the Union General Huntsays, Kight gallantly did they act their part, and theirfailure carried no discredit with it. Their militaryhonor was not tarnished by their defeat, nor theirspirit lowered, but their respect for their opponentswas restored to what it had been before Fredericksburgand Chancellorsville. 30. The Confederate army retreated at its the 23d of July it was still near Winchester. WhenMeade at last advanced toward Culpeper Court-house, Lee moved rapidly southward passing entirelyaround Meades
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