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'Lee's Retreat after the Battle of Gettysburg', (1878). Following General Robert E Lee's failure to defeat the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began its Retreat from Gettysburg on 4 July 1863. General Lee ordered a retreat through Maryland and over the Potomac River to relative safety in Virginia. From "Our Country: a Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time", Volume 3, by Benson J. Lossing. [Johnson & Miles, New York, 1878]