YORK DAILY RECORD
In Wrightsville and Hanover in 1963, Gettysburg 100 featured parades, speeches and other well-attended Civil War observances.
Midway between those two boroughs, in York, a single-page reprint in The Gazette and Daily served as the only evidence that the City of York played a role in the Civil War. That page reproduced its predecessor's coverage of the Confederate invasion of York County in the days before the Battle of Gettysburg.
About 11,000 Confederate troops moved through the county, about one-sixth of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
They were rebuffed from crossing the Susquehanna River when Union troops first fought them feverishly and then stopped them cold by burning the mile-long bridge connecting York and Lancaster counties.
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