Prior to the Gettysburg engagement, several CSA elements had been poking around West of the PA Capital in Harrisburg..Carlisle, Mechanicsburg and a few other areas on the west shore, had been "invaded" by Confederate cavalry and artillery units. Some historians believe Lee's ultimate purpose in coming to PA, was to capture Harrisburg.
A few of those minor skirmishes took place within a few miles of where I live. By the time most of Lee's forces were converging on Gettysburg, all of the scattered elements in this area, were recalled to join Lee. Supposedly the "high water mark" took place on the Cumberland/Perry county border, a week prior to Gettysburg?
