. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . MUTE PLEADERS IN THE CAUSE OF PEACE There was little timethat could be employeilby either side in caringfor those who fell uponthe fields of the almostuninterrupted fightingat Gettysburg. On themorning of the Lee began toabandon his position onSeminary Ridge, oppo-site the Federal sides sent forthambulance and burialdetails to remove thewounded and bury thedead in the torrentialrain then falling. Undercover of the hazy at-mosphere, Lee was get-. ting his whole army inmotion to an unfinishedshallow g
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . MUTE PLEADERS IN THE CAUSE OF PEACE There was little timethat could be employeilby either side in caringfor those who fell uponthe fields of the almostuninterrupted fightingat Gettysburg. On themorning of the Lee began toabandon his position onSeminary Ridge, oppo-site the Federal sides sent forthambulance and burialdetails to remove thewounded and bury thedead in the torrentialrain then falling. Undercover of the hazy at-mosphere, Lee was get-. ting his whole army inmotion to an unfinishedshallow grave, like theone above, had to beleftby the this lower picturesome menof theTwenty-fourth Michigan in-fantry are lying deadon the field of regiment—one ofthe units of the IronBrigade—left seven dis-tinct rows of dead as itfell back from battle-lineto battle-line, on the firstday. Three-fourths ofits members were struckdown. MEX OF THE BRIGADE rttijsltux*9 A- A ♦ \il r^ July1863 Lea\ing General Stuart with ten thousand cavalry and apart of Hills corjjs to prevent Hooker from pursuing, Leecrossed the Potomac early in June, 1803, concentrated hisarmy at Hagerstown, INIaryland, and prepared for a cam-paign in Pennsylvania, with Harrisburg as tlie objective. Hisarmy A^as organized in three corps, under the respective com-mands of Longstreet, Ewell, and A. P. Hill. Lee had dividedhis army so as to approach Harrisburg by different routes andto assess the towns along tlie way for large
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