Excerpt from Gettysburg: A Survey, From the Standpoints of Topography and the Highways, of the Military Operations Which Culminated at Gettysburg in the Summer of 1863It is said that whereas most of those from the Conestoga country went to Pittsburgh or beyond the Ohio river, those manufactured in Gettysburg found their principal sale in Maryland and Vir ginia. The earliest commercial affiliations of this section were with points south rather than with those west, somewhat because most of the first travel and emigration from Philadelphia, Lan caster and Columbia passed on to the Cumber land valley and the western' parts Of the State through what is now Harrisburg, instead of through here.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.