The rebels are hunted out of the North, their best army is routed,

and the charm of Robert Lee’s invincibility is broken.

The Army of the Potomac has at last found a general that can handle it,

and has stood nobly up to its terrible work

in spite of its long disheartening list of hard-fought failures.

 

—George Templeton Strong, of New York, diary

After news of Gettysburg reached New York City, July 6, 1863