. Abraham Lincoln : a history . GETTYSBURG 231 r^. 232 ABRAHAM LINCOLN chap. ix. chief, and lie left the disposition to be made of thegarrison to Meades discretion. The new generalmade no change in the administration of his army;he retained, for the time being, General Hookersstaff; he asked that three meritorious young cap-tains of cavalry, Farnsworth, Custer, and Merritt, allrecommended by General Pleasonton, and two ofthem doomed to the death of soldiers in the flowerof their youth, should be made brigadier-generals —which was at once done. The authorities at Wash-ington placed all their re
. Abraham Lincoln : a history . GETTYSBURG 231 r^. 232 ABRAHAM LINCOLN chap. ix. chief, and lie left the disposition to be made of thegarrison to Meades discretion. The new generalmade no change in the administration of his army;he retained, for the time being, General Hookersstaff; he asked that three meritorious young cap-tains of cavalry, Farnsworth, Custer, and Merritt, allrecommended by General Pleasonton, and two ofthem doomed to the death of soldiers in the flowerof their youth, should be made brigadier-generals —which was at once done. The authorities at Wash-ington placed all their resources freely in his had nothing to do but go forward and find andfight the enemy. He had, on his part, no desire to June, 1863. do anything else. On the 29th he placed his armyin motion for the North, with a front stretchingacross thirty miles of country, his cavalry guardinghis flanks and rear. His intention remained thesame as that of the day before: if Lee moved forBaltimore, to get between his main army and thatplace; if he shoul
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