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CIVIL WAR GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN]. Office of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia and Headquarters of the Home Guard of the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 16 June 1863. "Defence of the City of Philadelphia: Office of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. By Virtue of the Authority vested in me...I do hereby require Brigadier General A.J. Pleasonton, Commander of the Home Guard, to order out (and into the service of the City of Philadelphia), the whole of the said guard, for the preservation of the public peace and the defence of the city. And I hereby call upon all persons within the limits of the said City, to yield a prompt and ready obedience to the Orders of the said Commander of the Home Guard, and of those acting under his authority in the execution of his and their said duties." Printed by King & Baird, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. Broadside, 38 x 24 in.,minor tape repairs to folds on verso, otherwise very fine, in two-sided glass frame. PREPARING FOR LEE'S INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA. In June of 1863, as the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee marched into Pennsylvania, threatening the state capital in Harrisburg, the residents of the North's major cities became alarmed at the possibility that Southern soldiers might soon be walking their streets. Philadelphia seemed a likely target of Lee's campaign and the city reacted accordingly. Defensive breastworks were built along the Schuylkill River just west of the city and the local citizenry was called out to provide a last line of defense should the Army of the Potomac prove unable to stop the advancing Confederates. The threat was a hollow one however, as the tremendous Battle of Gettysburg put an end to Lee's invasion. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry made the closest approach to the city, but never came within fifty miles of its borders.