...e army on July 1st there; but he was in no hurry to precipitate a battle, and would have preferred to fight at some point not so far from his base. On the 30th Pettigrew, commanding a brigade of Heth 's division, Hill's corps, was directed to march to Gettysburg to get shoes for the barefooted men of the division, but returned the same evening without them and reported that Gettysburg was occupied...