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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 96 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 72 0 Browse Search
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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 5 (search)
wn on map. Walkersville and Woodsborough, to Taneytown. 4 A. M. The 2d Corps, by Johnsville, Libtsburg.1st Corps to Gettysburg. 2d Corps to Taneytown.11th Corps to Gettysburg. (or supporting dinover. General Meade's Headquarters were at Taneytown. The same night, the 30th of June, the Aressage had had time to reach Headquarters at Taneytown, and certainly before Hancock's 5.25 P. M. weade's order, started soon after 7 P. M. for Taneytown, and had marched in that direction beyond thf the commanding general, ridden direct from Taneytown. The sight which met his gaze upon his ar and everything being now quiet, started for Taneytown, to report to the commanding general. He arthe commanding general, was on the road from Taneytown to Gettysburg, in the rear of the Second Corosition, General Hancock, just returned from Taneytown, arrived on the field and resumed command ofaching. As soon as General Meade learned at Taneytown of the death of Reynolds, and that his corps[20 more...]
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 17 (search)
the First [Twelfth] corps, had arrived a short time before, but his corps was then some four miles distant. In the early part of the evening (Wednesday) a conference of the leading generals took place, when some insisted on falling back towards Taneytown, while others urged the expediency of maintaining their present position, as offering rare advantages for the inevitable and decisive contest that must occur on the following day. It appears that General Meade had issued a circular (of which I e Creek almost at the moment that his left flank was fiercely struggling with the right wing of the enemy. This proves how often the plans of a general are frustrated by unlooked for contingencies. General Meade broke up his headquarters at Taneytown, as he states, at eleven P. M. on Wednesday, and reached Gettysburg at one A. M. Thursday, July 2. Early in the morning he set to work examining the position of the various army corps. It is hardly true to say that he imitated the example of
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 29 (search)
nt, in the then condition of the Eleventh and First Corps, with their morale affected by their withdrawal to Cemetery Ridge, with the loss of over half their numbers in killed, wounded, and missing (of the 6000 prisoners we lost in the field nearly all came from these corps in the first day), his occupation of Culp's Hill, with batteries commanding the whole of Cemetery Ridge, would have produced the evacuation of that ridge and the withdrawal of the troops there by the Baltimore Pike and Taneytown and Emmettsburg roads. He then informed me that at 4 P. M. on the 1st he had his corps, 20,000 strong, in column of attack, and on the point of moving on Culp's Hill, which he saw was unoccupied and commanded Cemetery Ridge, when he received an order from General Lee directing him to assume the defensive, and not to advance; that he sent to General Lee urging to be permitted to advance with his reserves, but the reply was a reiteration of the previous order. To my inquiry why Lee had rest
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 30 (search)
On the 1st of July, my headquarters being at Taneytown, and having directed the advance of two corp lines of communication I then held with the Taneytown road and the Baltimore pike. The question the Potomac, June 30, 1863. Headquarters at Taneytown. Thirds corps to Emmettsburg. Second corps t(circular) Headquarters army of the Potomac, Taneytown, July 1, 1863. From information receivedsent at Gettysburg, two corps by the road to Taneytown and Westminster, and, after crossing Pipe crng corps commanders. The 2d corps, now at Taneytown, will be held in reserve, in the vicinity of General Reynolds at or near the road from Taneytown to Frizelburg. The chief of artillery wilManchester, Union Mills, Middleburg, and the Taneytown road. All true Union people should be advh corps; the 2d corps is on the road between Taneytown and Gettysburg; the 3d corps is at Emmettsbu M Headquarters army of the Potomac, Taneytown, July 1, 1863—7 1/2 P. M. commanding officer[3 more...]
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Appendix Y (search)
ith any such intention as that ascribed to him by General Doubleday, it is necessary to take a retrospective view of what occurred just previous to the time specified by General Doubleday. On the evening of July 1, 1863, General Meade was at Taneytown, distant from Gettysburg about thirteen miles. He had made every exertion to hasten the troops to the front, and was preparing to go to Gettysburg in person, when General Hancock, just returned from the front, reported to him. That officer's reontinues: As soon as he was near enough to be heard, he said in a very excited manner, so that all the men heard him: General Pleasonton directs that you at once move your batteries across Stony [Rock] Creek, and retire about one mile on the Taneytown road [Baltimore Pike] and take up a position. The Rebs have broken through our centre, and it is all up with us! It may be answered that this mode of address was simply that officer's, that General Pleasonton was in nowise responsible for