Robert E. Lee led his Confederate army to another invasion of the North known as the Gettysburg Campaign. Lee intended to retrieve supplies from the Pennsylvania farm lands and take the fighting away from the state of Virginia. Lee wanted to weaken the North’s want of war and wanted to win a major battle on northern soil. Ordered by President Lincoln, General Joseph Hooker was to move his Union Army (Army of the Potomac) in pursuit. General Hooker was relieved of command three days before the battle and was replaced by General George Gordon Meade. Meade moved his army north, staying between Lee and Washington, D.C. Lee soon learned Meade and his army was in Pennsylvania. Lee then concentrated his army around
