Retreat from Gettysburg
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The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began its Retreat from Gettysburg on July 4, 1863. Following General Robert E. Lee's failure to defeat the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg, he ordered
Commanding generals George G. Meade and Robert E. Lee
Invasion of Maryland - General Meade's army crossing the Antietam in pursuit of Lee, July 12, engraving for Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper by Edwin Forbes
Earthworks in Lee's Potomac line (Last stand of the Army of Virginia, commanded by General Lee), painting by Edwin Forbes
Escape of the Army of Virginia, commanded by General Lee, over the Potomac River near Williamsport, painting by Edwin Forbes
J. Johnston Pettigrew
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James Johnston Pettigrew was an American writer, lawyer, and soldier. He served in the army of the Confederate States of America, fighting in the 1862 Peninsula Campaign and played a prominent role in
Portrait by William Garl Browne, 1864.
Pettigrew circa 1855
Bronze plaque commemorating the site of Pettigrew's death near Bunker Hill, West Virginia
Tyrrell County Confederate Monument noting the death of General J. Johnston Pettigrew