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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
had been withdrawn, and by daylight of July 1 were occupying the position where they fought on that day and gained a signal victory. The division of Pennsylvania Reserves, which had fought more and marched more than any other division in the Army of the Potomac, was on that day held in reserve and not engaged. On the final repulse of the enemy at Malvern Hill orders were issued for a further withdrawal of the army to Harrison's Landing. This movement was successfully accomplished during the 2d and 3d of July. The total loss in General McClellan's army from June 26 to July 1, inclusive, was 15,249. The Seven Days Battles, June 26 to July 1, 1862. Of this number the Pennsylvania Reserves lost 3,074, far more than any other division of the army. Two hundred and fifty-three were killed, 1,240 wounded, and 1,581 missing. The division commander and one brigade commander were captured, another brigade commander killed, and a third wounded. Its list of casualties bears witness to it
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 5 (search)
s certain: that from the 24th of June to the 2d of July General Lee was without the services of the pective armies at midnight, between July 1 and July 2. See Map No. 16, July 1, 12 P. M. Of th of the contest. On the early morning of July the 2d, Ewell's and Hill's troops having all reache movements of both armies down to midnight of July 2 it will be necessary to return to Stuart's Cavor the night. On the morning of the next day, July 2, he continued on to Hunterstown, and was movinon of cavalry, which having, on the morning of July 2, returned from Abbottstown to the right flank own during the night. Toward the afternoon of July 2, Stuart, with Fitz Lee's and Chambliss's briga toward Gettysburg, in the afternoon of the 2d of July, threatened to such good effect, as we have brigade of regular cavalry moved during the 2d of July from Mechanicsville to Emmettsburg. Robermbersburg to Gettysburg. Thus by the night of July 2 the whole of the available Federal and Confede
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
adquarters army of the Potomac, March 20, 1864. I have received a letter from Gibbon which has worried me a great deal. It is now evident that Butterfield, either intentionally or otherwise, misconstrued something that I said to him on the 2d of July into instructions to prepare an order to withdraw the army. To-be-sure, this order was never issued; it is also certain I never intended it to be prepared, much less issued. Nevertheless, the fact that he did prepare it, and, as he will swearril 6, 1864. General Grant returned yesterday, and I have seen him to-day. Nothing new or important has transpired. General Hunt has been up to Washington and before the committee. He says, after questioning him about the famous order of July 2, and his telling them he never heard of it, and from his position and relations with me would certainly have heard of it, they went to work and in the most pettifogging way, by a cross-examination, tried to get him to admit such an order might ha
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 17 (search)
ingular and most important fact: That he issued a plan of campaign on Wednesday, July 1, directing his whole army to retire and take up the defensive on Pipe 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 all prudent commanders on the eve of the battle and made a complete survey of the ground he occupied. It was on these occasions that the genius of the First Napoleon revealed itself; for at a glance he saw the advantages of his own position and the assailable point of the enemy. It seems that General Lee was somewhat more astute than Meade
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Appendix O (search)
ered, that the left wing of our army, under the command of General Sickles was selected by General Lee as his report shows for the main point of his attack. I stated, also, that whilst this formidable attack was preparing all the morning of Thursday, July 2, General Sickles was left without orders, in spite of his urgent entreaties to the Commander-in-Chief, General Meade. I stated, likewise, that during this fearful interval, instead of being occupied with the steady advance of the enemy, Genratuitous; for it was far from my intention to disparage by a single word, the valiant troops of the Second corps or their gallant commander. The writer in question is deeply offended that General Sickles figured so conspicuously in the fight of July 2; but that is no fault of mine. The blame, if any, is to be attributed to the eagerness and activity of General Sickles. The said writer, however, makes one charge so grave that it demands refutation. He declares that Sickles advanced his corps
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 29 (search)
nt study of the battle, I could not accept the orator's conclusions, though presented by a comrade and friend. I protested against this portion of the oration as a distortion of history and an undue exaltation of a corps commander at the expense of the commander of the army; and, by citation of undisputed facts, of orders on the order-books of the Army of the Potomac, and of General Meade's despatches to General Halleck, I showed that General Meade could not have been contemplating on the 2d of July a withdrawal of his army from Gettysburg, unless compelled to withdraw by a movement of the enemy upon his lines of communication; that, on the contrary, his determination to fight, defensively if he could, but offensively rather than not at all, at Gettysburg, was clearly demonstrated, and that the fame of General Sickles for conscious or unconscious achievements must rest on something else than the prevention of the retreat of the Army of the Potomac from Gettysburg. The newspaper art
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 30 (search)
have already acknowledged. On the next day, July 2, the army was got into position at Gettysburg.order should be issued on the morning of the 2d of July requiring the withdrawal of the army or the vement of any kind. On the morning of the 2d of July I directed an order to be issued to Major Geo be issued, any order on the morning of the 2d of July for the retreat of my army before any attackf the army had suffered in the battle of the 2d of July—in fact, as subsequently ascertained, out ofn put hors du combat before the night of the 2d of July; and taking into consideration the number oft an order should be issued, on the morning of July 2, withdrawing the army from the position it thehave been issued at ten o'clock A. M. of the 2d of July, which is in confirmation of what I consideris as follows: Headquarters army of Potomac, July 2 (supposed about 10 A. M.), 1863. The staffis as follows: Headquarters army of Potomac, July 2 (3 P. M. Near Gettysburg), 1863. Major General[2 more...]
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 31 (search)
Vol. II. (for reply by Col. Meade, see Appendix Y) (from the New York times, April 1st, 1883） Meade at Gettysburg: his proposed retreat on the night of the 2nd of July; Gen. Doubleday's defense of his statement that Meade was overruled by the action of a council of War To the editor of the New York Times: A short tis escaped Mr. Swinton's notice. The desire to retreat was supplemented by acts which form part of the history of the battle. He sent for Gen. Pleasonton on the 2nd of July, his Chief of Cavalry, and directed him, late in the afternoon, to collect what cavalry and artillery he could, proceed with it to the rear, and take up a posite controversies about the events of the war, I feel averse to writing anything on the subject. That a council of war was called by Gen. Meade on the evening of July 2d is well known. The names of all present are well known. The question submitted was: Is it advisable for the army to remain in its present position or to fall ba
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Appendix Y (search)
rong. At the close of the fighting on the 2d of July, General Meade summoned his corps commanderso be issued, any order on the morning of the 2d of July for the retreat of my army before any attack corps commanders, held on the evening of the 2d July; and, if you have no objection to so doing, toring a retreat of the army on the evening of July 2d at Gettysburg. I took no minutes of the col advocated a retreat of the army on the second day of July last, and particularly in reference to tng of corps commanders held on the evening of 2d July last are briefly these: After some desultol Meade's headquarters on the evening of the 2d of July last, and in reply to state: 1st. I was fficers present at the council of war on the 2d of July, excepting Generals Hancock, Howard, and Butevery officer present at the council of war of July 2, and excepting that of Generals Slocum and Buteen chiefof-staff on the eventful day of the 2d of July, at Gettysburg, the nation would not have wi[21 more...]