1863 Civil War newspaper with MAP of VIRGINIA Bristoe RAPIDAN RIVER Lee vs Meade

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1863 Civil War newspaper with a MAP of VIRGINIA Bristoe RAPIDAN RIVER Lee vs Meade
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inv # 3B-227
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL Civil War NEWSPAPER, the
Philadelphia Inquirer
(PA) dated Dec 3, 1863.
This newspaper contains a large prominent 8" x 7" front page Civil War map headlined: "THEATER OF WAR IN VIRGINIA".  There are headlines and text as well on the
Bristoe Campaign between Confederate Gen Robert E Lee and Union Gen George Meade near the Rapidan River in Virginia.
The Bristoe Campaign was a series of minor battles fought in Virginia during October and November 1863, in the American Civil War. Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, commanding the Union Army of the Potomac, began to maneuver in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Lee countered with a turning movement, which caused Meade to withdraw his army back toward Centreville. Lee struck at Bristoe Station on October 14, but suffered losses in two brigades and withdrew. As Meade followed south once again, the Union army smashed a Confederate defensive bridgehead at Rappahannock Station on November 7 and drove Lee back across the Rapidan River. Along with the infantry battles, the cavalry forces of the armies fought at Auburn on October 13, again at Auburn on October 14, and at Buckland Mills on October 19.
The Confederates had not achieved their primary objectives of bringing on a decisive battle or preventing the Federal reinforcement of the Western Theater, and Lee and his officers were much demoralized by this failure.
Good condition. Some fold lines. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it
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