Notes on the Rebel Invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania - And the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2d and 3d, 1863; Accompanied by an Explanatory Map #228486

So hopeful were the leaders of the rebellion in the success of this, their project, that they did-hot deem it necessary to keep their intentions a secret. Many weeks before their at. Tempted invasion, their newspapers freely referred to it as an event that would surely happen and boasted loudly of the manner in which they would fatten on the spoils they would take from the rich farmers and well-filled storehouses of the North.