. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. JRAL I,KE ON HIS FA\ length all concentrated. But the time had not yet come for few more moves had to be made in the great game of preparationwhich both commanders were playing. Encamped, on that momentous night of June 30th, within ashort distance of Gettysburg, were 23,000 Union infantry and 6000. PORTRAIT OF GENERAL LEE FROM AN ENGRAVING. (26.^) 264 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, cavalry, and about 27,000 Confederate infantry and artillery, readyto meet each other in the morning in deadly conflict to settle thefate of t
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. JRAL I,KE ON HIS FA\ length all concentrated. But the time had not yet come for few more moves had to be made in the great game of preparationwhich both commanders were playing. Encamped, on that momentous night of June 30th, within ashort distance of Gettysburg, were 23,000 Union infantry and 6000. PORTRAIT OF GENERAL LEE FROM AN ENGRAVING. (26.^) 264 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, cavalry, and about 27,000 Confederate infantry and artillery, readyto meet each other in the morning in deadly conflict to settle thefate of the republic of the United States. There was but little sleep in the quaint old town that inhabitants sat on their porches and in their rooms discussing,with bated breath, the coming struggle, while the reckless soldiers of the contending armiessang ribald and patrioticsongs, played cards andcracked jokes, enjoyingthemselves in any andevery way their fancies led,nnmindful of the fearful fateimpending over them. The sun never shonemore brightly than when itcast its first beams acrossthe hill-tops surroundingGettysburg on the ist ofJuly thirty-three years t h e Confederate campthe night had passed with-out any incident of specialnote. The pickets had beenwarned to be alert and vigi-lant to every move of t h eenemy, and those o f t h etroops who sought
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