Posted on 07/07/2023 6:28:01 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF POTOMAC, NEAR GETTYSBURGH, July 4.
GENERAL ORDERS NO. 68. -- The Commanding General, in behalf the country, thanks the Army of the Potomac for the glorious result of the recent operations. Our enemy, superior in numbers, and flushed with the pride of a successful invasion, attempted to overcome or destroy this army. Baffled and defeated be has now withdrawn from the contest. The privations and fatigues the army has endured, and the heroic courage and gallantry it displayed, will be matters of history to be ever remembered.
Our task is not yet accomplished, and the Commanding General looks to the army for greater efforts to drive from our soil every vestige of the presence of the invader.
It is right and proper that we should, on suitable occasions, return our grateful thanks to the Almighty Disposer of events, that, in the goodness of His providence He has thought at to give victory to the cause of the just.
By command of
(Signed.) Maj.-Gen. MEADE.
S. WILLIAMS, A.A.G.
WASHINGTION, Monday, July 6 -- 10 P.M.
The army news centreing from all points today gives assurances of the greatest successes additional to those already achieved. Our forces are pressing from many different directions to cut off LEE's retreat, and cooperating with Gen. MEADE. The victory is not only glorious, -- it will be decisive. The Potomac is swelling rapidly from last night's rains. Gen. STONEMAN has been ordered immediately to join the Army of the Potomac, to take a cavalry command. He has left to-night.
WASHINGTON, Monday, July 6.
Our whole army is in motion, and the highest hopes are entertained that but a small portion of Gen. LEE's army will be able to reach Virginia.
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