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CHAPTER XII.

SECOND INVASION OF MARYLAND.--GETTYSBURG.

1863.--Invasion of the Northern States.--Kilpatrick at Aldie.
--The Bloody Battle.--Daring Deeds.--Colonel Cesnola,
Fourth New York Cavalry.--Incidents.--Victory.--Advance
to Ashby's Gap.--Pleasonton's Official Report.--Rebel
Movements on Free Soil.--Difficulties in the North.--The
Cavalry Corps Crosses the Potomac at Edward's Ferry.--
General Meade succeeds Hooker.--Orders.--Changes in the
Cavalry.--Movements.--Kilpatrick's Fight with Stuart at
Hanover Junction.--Solemn and Laughable Scenes.--Buford's
Division Opens the Fight at Gettysburg.--Death of General
Reynolds.--First Day's Repulse.--Second Day.--Rebel
Advantages.--Third Day.--Last Grand Effort.--Death of
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CHAPTER XIII.

RETREAT OF THE REBELS FROM GETTYSBURG.

1863.--National Rejoicing.--The Enemy Retreating.--Feebly
Pursued.--Reconnoissances.--Kilpatrick Gives the Enemy a
Fourth of July Entertainment at Monterey Pass.--Storm and
Terror.--Immense Train Destroyed, and Hosts of Prisoners
Taken.--Pitiable Condition of Stuart's Cavalry.--Battle of
Hagerstown.--Captains Penfield and Dahlgren Wounded.--
Wonderful Exploits of a Union Scout.--Kilpatrick and Buford
at Williamsport.--Cavalry Fight at Boonsboro'.--Stuart
Defeated.--Hagerstown Retaken.--Orders to Advance, One Day
Too Late.--Kilpatrick Chases the Flying Foe.--Fight at
Falling Waters, Last Act in the Drama.--Great Bravery of
Union Troops.--Last Vestige of the Invaders Wiped Out.--
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CHAPTER XIV.

KILPATRICK'S GUNBOAT EXPEDITION.

1863.--Escape of Lee into Virginia.--Reasons.--Cavalry Advance into the
Valley _via_ Harper's Ferry.--Riot in New York and other Northern
Cities.--Again Across the Potomac on "Sacred Soil."--Blackberries and
Discipline.--Mails.--Battle of Manassas Gap.--Mosby Again, and His
Bands.--Kilpatrick's Gunboat Expedition on the Rappahannock.--Cavalry
Captures Navy.--Complimented by Superiors.--General Advance of the
Army.--Third Cavalry Battle at Brandy Station.--Stuart's Cavalry Worsted
at Culpepper Court House.--Sharp Artillery Practice at Raccoon Ford, on
the Rapidan.--Special Duties and Special Dangers.--Good Living Along
the Hazel and Robertson Rivers.--Importan