Bring this subject into focus through the following chapters. These stories take exploration of the main story further by providing more detail for you to learn and explore.

Overview: The Gettysburg Campaign
The Confederates Invade Pennsylvania
The Army of the Potomac Pursues Lee into Pennsylvania
Confederate High Tide: Operations on the West Shore of the Susquehanna
Convergence on Gettysburg

	Thaddeus Stevens (Lancaster)		Stuart's Raid (Franklin)
	Gettysburg Campaign [Chambersburg] (Franklin)		Gettysburg Campaign [Invasion] (Franklin)
	Gettysburg Campaign [Corporal Rihl] (Franklin)		Gettysburg Campaign [Jubal Early] (Franklin)
	Caledonia Furnace (Franklin)		Gettysburg Campaign [Bridges] (York)
	Confederate Conference (Franklin)		Gettysburg Campaign [Cumberland Valley] (Franklin)
	Gettysburg Campaign [Carlisle] (Cumberland)		Gettysburg Campaign [Fulton County] (Fulton)
	Confederate Dead [McConnellsburg] (Fulton)

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1861 Confederates defeat the Union army at First Manassas (Bull Run), Virginia.

1862 General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac retreats from its positions near Richmond, VA in the Seven Days' Battles.

1862 General Lee's troops defeat General John Pope at Second Manassas (Bull Run), VA.

1862 In the bloodiest day of the war, Lee's troops manage to repel McClellan's attacks at the Battle of Antietam, Maryland and fight to a stalemate. Lee's Army leaves the field first, thus giving the Army of the Potomac a tactical victory.

1862 Jeb Stuart's Confederate cavalry crosses the Potomac River and raids into Pennsylvania, occupying Chambersburg on the 10th and 11th.

1862 Lee's troops repel General Ambrose E. Burnside's attacks at Fredericksburg, VA.

1863 Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, which stipulates that all slaves in areas in rebellion are now free.

1863 Lee's troops defeat Union General Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville, VA.

1863 The Gettysburg Campaign begins when troops of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia move north from Fredericksburg, VA.

1863 Union and Confederate horsemen fight at Brandy Station, Virginia.

1863 Confederate troops defeat the Union garrison at Winchester, VA, opening the way to cross the Potomac River into Maryland.

1863 Confederate troops begin crossing the Potomac River; General Albert G. Jenkins' cavalry rides through Greencastle, Pennsylvania, and enters Chambersburg.

1863 Owing to a false report of advancing Union troops, Jenkins' men evacuate Chambersburg and fall back into Maryland.

1863 Confederate infantry marches into Pennsylvania at Greencastle and Waynesboro; during a skirmish south of Greencastle, Corporal William Rihl of the 1st NY Cavalry becomes the first Union soldier killed in Pennsylvania.

1863 Confederate infantry of Richard Ewell's corps occupy Chambersburg.

1863 General Lee arrives in Chambersburg and makes his headquarters just east of town.

1863 Two of Ewell's divisions occupy Carlisle in preparation for assault on the state capital at Harrisburg.

1863 Jenkins' cavalry occupy Mechanicsburg and skirmish with Union militia near Oyster Point; President Lincoln appoints General George G. Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac; Lee learns through a spy that the Union army is in Maryland and moving north; Confederates occupy York and just miss seizing the bridge at Wrightsville.

1863 In order to counter the advancing Army of the Potomac, Lee issues orders for his army to concentrate at Cashtown; more skirmishing at Oyster Point.