Jake Wynn | June 15, 2013
As General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia began its trek up the Shenandoah Valley in early June 1863, the objective mystified many in the North. Some thought he had aims on Washington or Baltimore, while others thought he was taking his army further north, into the Union’s second most populous state. Pennsylvania looked […]
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Jake Wynn | June 13, 2013
From June 15 through July 15, I will be publishing a special series of posts that concern the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and its effects on the Pennsylvania home front. As an invading army pressed north across the Potomac from Maryland, the diverse people of the Keystone State faced the Union’s most […]
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