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In the end
by James Gindlesperger
"Rally them Blackford" by Francis Barnum depicts JEB Stuart and Blackford prior to arriving in Gettysburg
but the many rivers and obstacles his Third Army encountered crossing Europe required engineers spearheading his advance
000 officers and men captured along with 16 artillery pieces destroyed
Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) scale In the endThe widow Lydia Leister bought her small 9 acre Taneytown Road farm just south of Gettysburg in 1861. Her hard work quickly made the farm self sufficient. At the outbreak of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 3, 1863, commanding Union Army General George Gordon Meade commandeered the farm to serve as his headquarters due to its centrally located position. Following the Battle of Gettysburg Lydia returned home to find her small house damaged from