Major General J.E.B. Stuart and a Confederate force of 1,800 cavalrymen have raided towns and supply depots along a 125-mile track through Pennsylvania and Maryland, successfully avoiding confrontations with thousands of Federal troops encamped there.

Stuart’s raiders traveled in a circuit around McClellan’s Army, entering Union territory to their west and retreating south, to safety, on their east.

Along the way, they seized fresh horses, Federal uniforms, hats, shoes and arms, cut telegraph wires, and gathered intelligence.

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