At the critical period of the American Civil War when General
Hooker was succeeded by General Meade, neither Meade nor Lee
desired or expected to fight a battle at Gettysburg, Lee wishing
to have it at Cashtown and Meade on Pipe Creek, but both were
drawn into it against positive orders to the contrary, and yet
that battle proved to be the turning-point in the fortunes of
the war.
Many of the greatest results in history and in individual lives turn
on circumstances wholly unforeseen by man, which some call accident or
chance, but which the wise know to be an overruling Providence. (Text.)
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=Unexpected Value=--See APPRECIATION.
=Unfaith=--See CONFIDENCE, LACK OF; TIME BRINGS FORTUNE.
=Unfaithfulness, Penalty of=--See RESPECT, NO, OF PERSONS.