Events

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Battles/Soldiers 07/01/1863 At dawn, the last Confederate occupiers of Carlisle, Pennsylvania leave the town
Battles/Soldiers 07/01/1863 Major General W.F. Smith's Union troops arrive in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to an enthusiastic welcome
Battles/Soldiers 07/01/1863 Stuart's cavalrymen destroy the U.S. Army's Cavalry School at Carlisle Barracks
Battles/Soldiers 07/01/1863 Volunteer Philadelphia Artillery battery, full of distinguished Philadelphians, goes into action at Carlisle
Battles/Soldiers 07/01/1863 Attack of Confederate infantry on dismounted Union cavalry begins the collision of armies at Gettysburg
Battles/Soldiers 07/01/1863 General John Reynolds killed in action within two hours of battle commencing at Gettysburg
Battles/Soldiers 07/01/1863 John Burns, 69 year-old War of 1812 veteran, picks up his flintlock and joins the Iron Brigade
US/the World 06/30/1863 British government reports a recent nationwide increase in measles and scarlet fever
Battles/Soldiers 06/30/1863 In Louisiana, Confederate raiders capture a convalescing Union general outside Port Hudson
Lawmaking/Litigating 06/30/1863 The U.S. Government counts only eighteen veterans remaining from the Revolutionary War
Battles/Soldiers 06/30/1863 The final action in the defense of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania takes place at Sporting Hill
Battles/Soldiers 06/30/1863 Heavy fighting with Union cavalry at Hanover, Pennsylvania again delays Stuart's Confederate cavalry
Battles/Soldiers 06/30/1863 North Carolina cavalry leader experiences an undignified capture in the streets of Hanover
Battles/Soldiers 06/30/1863 The leading First Corps of the Army of the Potomac camps four miles west of Gettysburg
Battles/Soldiers 06/30/1863 In Pennsylvania, the Confederate Second Corps begins to pull back to concentrate on Gettysburg
Battles/Soldiers 06/29/1863 Reconnoitering Confederates reach the Susquehanna, across from the Pennsylvania state capital
Battles/Soldiers 06/28/1863 Union defenders retreat across the Susquehanna burning the Wrightsville Bridge behind them
Battles/Soldiers 06/28/1863 Confederate cavalry occupy Mechanicsburg, just nine miles from the Pennsylvania state capitol
Battles/Soldiers 06/28/1863—06/30/1863 Confederate infantry occupy York, Pennsylvania
Battles/Soldiers 06/28/1863 Confederate patrols reach the Perry County line, the northern limit of the Pennsylvania invasion