Pennsylvania at Gettysburg : ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major General George GMeade, Major General Winfield SHancock, Major General John FReynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . on.! That body of cavalry, from which alone Lee could hope to get thefacts necesary to determine his course, was engi-ossed in pursuing whatthey called the fugitive militia, but Colonel Jennings, more skilful tosave than General Early was to capture, by celerity of movement combinedwith firm resLstancc when
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg : ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major General George GMeade, Major General Winfield SHancock, Major General John FReynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . on.! That body of cavalry, from which alone Lee could hope to get thefacts necesary to determine his course, was engi-ossed in pursuing whatthey called the fugitive militia, but Colonel Jennings, more skilful tosave than General Early was to capture, by celerity of movement combinedwith firm resLstancc when it became necessary, thwarted every attempt andthe<!H reiK)rt, Wnr of ItclH-lUoii, No. 41, p. 31G.•I,«-ch report, Wnr of Itcljcllloii, No. 14, p. ^-vh rc|Kirt, Wiir of ItolKlllon, No. 44, p. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 791 Colonel Garnett of the rebel army asserts, I believe it was never GeneralLees intention to fight a great battle so far from his base and that he wasdrawn into it by the want of information of the enemys whereabouts.! If, perchance, Early, instead of sending White and French to the Hunt-erstown road, and hurrying up the infantry of Gordon and Hays in thevain task to which he devoted them on the 26th of June, had been ableto report to Lee the position and movements of the Army of the Potomacwho can say that Rodes would not have made his assault upon Harris-burg on the 30th, or that a battle at Gettysburg would have ever occurred?Unlike Meade, who permitted Stuart to ride at will. Early was divertedfrom his object and tempted from his duty. That Providence, which rulesthe universe, sometimes woi-ks out its end by means that to the lessercomprehension of men seem inadequate, and in the great chain of causeand effect no link, however apparently unimportant,
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