During the three-week lead-up to the Battle of Gettysburg, the Army of the Potomac made a sustained series of forced marches with only occasional breaks as they raced from various locations in Virginia to Pennsylvania to stop Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. A survey of 144 regiments by the Statistical Division of the U.S. Sanitary Commission reported miles marched from June 10 to July 2, 1863:
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