Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-07-10
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From the New York World
GEN. MEADES VICTORY,
The Beginning and the End of the
is%s Invasion.
Ful Particulars Of the Battles of Wed.
nesday, Thursday and Friday,
( July lst, I'd and Sd.
From our Special Correspondent. ]
THE PRELIMINARY CAMPAIGN.

From our Special Correspondent
l THE PRELIMINARY CAMPAIGN.
| HIApouARTms Army OF THr PoroxAc.)
Near Gettysburg, Saturday Evening July.4,
The campaign which has practically termi-
mated In the rout whose last eullen echoes ar,
now dying away among the hills beyond Gettys
burg, was the most significant and remarksbl,
OF the war. IL has solved more riddles. Il ba,
taught more Lessons: it has oeen n brigbte,
advantage to the cause of the Union, and d
more signal disaster to that Of the rebellion
than any victory won by the Federal armies
since Mcclellan hurled back the rebel legions
to Virginia from the memorable field of Antie-
tam. The Army Of the Potomac, under the
cloud since the slaughter at Fredericksburp
and the blunder at Chancellorvillo, has re-
deemed itPelf In the eyes of the nation and
the world, to O level with its standard of the
days when IL was led to victory by the leader
whose heart may we'll leap within him as he
contemplates this last achievement of his be.
loved old-lime comrades. Theories of his in
ferlority, born Of the mistakes of Pope, Burn
slde and Hooker, and nurtured by the contrast of
iss failures With the recent victories of Western
troops, are efectually shattered. Il is shown
70 the public-it has always been evident to
military judges-thAt this army has the capaci-
~ for fight, the endurance, the elan, and the
energy TO render II invincible in the hands OF
cool and skillful General.
The hrst movement toward the invasion of
Pennsylvania was opened soon after the battle
Of Chaucsllorvllle by cavalry movement
which was met and quashed at Brandy Station
by General Pleasanton about the 1st OF June
On the 18Th ultimo, General Milroy was at.
tackled at Winchester BY the advance of Lees
army under General Ewell, and fed Disgrace
fully, after short conflict, to Harper's Ferry,
abandoning all his stores and cannon to The
rebels. This opened the way for the advance
OF the foe across the Potomac. Another force
OF its cavalry crossed the Upper Potomac on
the 10th, cauaing great CONSERVATION in Mary-
land and lower Pennsylvania. II entered Cham
bersburg and Mercersburg In the evening. % The
alarm caused BY this raid was UNNECESSARILY
great, for the main army Of Lse had moi vet
reached the south side of the Potomac The
Union garrison at Frederick. Nd, fell back 70
the Relay House on the 18th. A detachment
OF the enemy attacked Harpers Ferry the same
day, but was shelled back by General TYLER
from Maryland Heights. Ten thousand rebel
infantry crossed the Potomac at Williamsburg
In the night, beginning In earnest the great In.
vasion which was now fully shown to be in.
tended. The fights at Aldie on the 18th and
lSlh were between General Pleasanton's and a
body OF the ensmy's cavalry, which 10 supposed
to have danked their rear. More rebels CON-
etantly poured across the Potomac, aud on the
18TH EWell's entire division occupied Sharps-
burg, In Maryland. By this time Pennsylys-
MIA, New York and New Jersey began their
great effort to repel Lees advance from the
North. Hooker, reposing In pastoral quiet at
Fairfax station, In Virginia, did not disturb him
self with any such activity. He watched, walt.
ed, and was puzzled. Milroy's stampede, the
clamor OF which, II seems, might have come to
him from over the western mountains; the cries
OF help from Harrisburg, Plttsburg, Carlisle
and minor Pennsylvania towns; the tremulous
appeals rom Philadelphiagand Baltimore-all
these did not serve TO arouse him from bis |
lethargy, or give him the least idea Of where
his enemy was. IL was not until q voice OF |
command from w Washington, inspired, II Ia he |
lieved, from the midst Of HE own army. came
sounding In his ears like FIRE bsl in the night,
that he ordered up bis tent-stakes and began
HE march norshward over the Potomac, Mean. |
while, General Couch had commenced the Or |
ganisatlen of militia force at Gettysburg to |
CHECK, the tWenty thousand men under Ewell, |
who were raiding like bandltti through the coun-
try. The main rebel army was entirely acroes
the Potomac below Williamsburg on the 26.h, |
moved northward via McConnellsburg and /
and began In partially scattered /
columns its advance through Pennsy lvania 10 the |
direction of Philadelphia and Baltimore. The |
rashness and audacity of this movement SEEM
ed 10 confoupd the General then In command
Of this army Every mile over which Lee now
marched heightened his lines Of communi cation
In such degree as would have imperiled Il be-
yqnd peradventure had Hooker seen At to i'm
prove his advantage Forty thousand troops
and d hundred pieces Of rebel artillery passed
through Chambersburg on the 29lh., On Suu-
Day York was occupied by General Early, Who
made his famous levy on its citizens. Harris.
burg, iong threatened, was not yet attacked.
General Meade took command Of this army
On Sunday 1.-The 26th ulta At that time his head |
quarters were at Frederick, and Lees at Hs-
Essssc=s- II sill be seen that he was in the |
southwest, and consequently In the rear of |
the foe, imminently threatening bis line of re-
treat. The Army Of the Potomac began its |
campaign from that moment. Orders were Is
eued 70 the several corps to move early In the
evening, and on the morning of the 29th our
whole brilliant and hopeful host was in motion
toward Penpsylyania. The Firsh Third and Elev-
euth corps encamped on Tuesday at Emmetts-
burg; the Second and Twelfth also pitched their
tents near by. The Sixth corps marched to
Carlisle Wednesday morning, the first day Of
this month forever memorable. The First corps,
under Major General Reynolds, and the elev-
erth, under Major General Howard, started for
Reynolds In command, where they
arrived at ten o'clock A. The First corps,
inSthe advance, msrched directly through the
town. The enemy was discovered posted In
wood to the westward, near the Lutheran The
ologicaE Seminary. X The beginning Of the
three days' conflict was at hand.
lW aotda neiasTa II.FoI sa'
.nl p fHE BATTLE OF wrpNEapAY.