The history of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the war to preserve the Union, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . y forced marches for the purpose of bringing himto battle. These were Bufords troopers that Reynolds hadsent forward to meet Lee. Forewarned that he must lookfor the enemy to make his appearance on the Chambersburgand Carlisle roads, Buford was keeping a good lookout inboth directions. To that end he had taken position on acommanding ridge over which the roads passed, first toSeminary Ridge, and so back into Gettysburg. Dismount-ing his troopers he formed th
The history of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the war to preserve the Union, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . y forced marches for the purpose of bringing himto battle. These were Bufords troopers that Reynolds hadsent forward to meet Lee. Forewarned that he must lookfor the enemy to make his appearance on the Chambersburgand Carlisle roads, Buford was keeping a good lookout inboth directions. To that end he had taken position on acommanding ridge over which the roads passed, first toSeminary Ridge, and so back into Gettysburg. Dismount-ing his troopers he formed them across the two roads inskirmish line, threw out his vedettes, and planted his artil-lery with the valley of Willoughby Run before him, theSeminary Ridge and Gettysburg behind him, and the FirstCorps five miles away toward Emmitsburg. Bufords cav-alr3- awaited the morrow, conscious that if Gettysburg wasto be defended it must be from these heights. There couldhave been no prettier spot chosen than the valley of Wil-loughby Run, with its tall Avoods and shrubbery, its clear,flowing water and green banks, so soon to be the scene of. William A. Arnold. Commissioned First Lieutenant Battery E ; promoted Captain Battery A;Brevet Major and Lieutenant-Colonel. 1863.] THE ENEMY DISCOVERED BY BITFORD 193 that bloody strife, torn and defaced by shot and shell andthe loud cries of the combatants. The night passed quietly,yet some thirty thousand Confederates of all arms were ly-ing within a radius of eight miles of Gettysburg. Theyhad discovered the presence of Bufords men. and werewaiting for morning when they would brush them awayVery early in the morning of July 1st, Hills corps ad-vanced on the Chambersburg pike toward division, with Davis s. Archers and Broeken-brough s brigades, joined Pettigrews at Marsh (reek. Heretlit* first gun of the battle was fired. Bufords vedettes, adetachment of the Eighth Illinois, opened fire on the Con-federates moving for
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