. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . at Gettys-burg. Prior to this, the assembling of Meadesarmy behind Pipe Creek would have been easy,and all fears of injuring thereby the morale ofhis troops were idle: the Army of tin- Potomacwas of sterner stuff than that implies. Thebattle of July 1st changed the situation. Oxer-powered by numbers, the First and Eleventhcorps had, after hard fighting and irtli< ting aswell as incurring heavy losses, been forcedback to Cemetery Hill, which they still have withdrawn them now would have beena retreat, and might have discouraged the
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . at Gettys-burg. Prior to this, the assembling of Meadesarmy behind Pipe Creek would have been easy,and all fears of injuring thereby the morale ofhis troops were idle: the Army of tin- Potomacwas of sterner stuff than that implies. Thebattle of July 1st changed the situation. Oxer-powered by numbers, the First and Eleventhcorps had, after hard fighting and irtli< ting aswell as incurring heavy losses, been forcedback to Cemetery Hill, which they still have withdrawn them now would have beena retreat, and might have discouraged the Fed-eral, as it certainly would ha\ e tilled the Con-federate troops; especially as injurious reportsunjust to both the corps named had been cir-culated. It would have been to acknowledge adefeat when there was no defeat. there-fore resohed to fight at Gettysburg. An omi-nous dispatch from General Halleck to afternoon, suggesting that whilst his tac-tical arranyements were good, his strata ey was 2SO THE SECOXD DAY AT GENERAL G. K. WARREN AT THE SIGNAL STATION ON LITTLE ROUND TOP.(FROM A SKETCH .MADE BY A. R. WAUD AT THE TIME.) at fault, that he was too far east, that Lee mightattempt to turn his left, and that Frederick waspreferable as a base to Westminster, probablyconfirmed Meade in this decision. In pursuance of his instructions, I had thatmorning (July ist) reconnoitered the countrybehind Pipe Creek for a battle-ground. On myreturn I found General Hancock at GeneralMeades tent. He informed me that Reynoldswas killed, that a battle was going on at Gettys-burg, and that he was under orders to proceedto thatplace. His instructions were to examineit and the intermediate country for a suitablefield, and if his report was favorable the troopswould be ordered forward. Before the receiptof Hancocks written report from CemeteryHill, which was not very encouraging, Gen-eral Meade had received from others informa-tion as to fhe state of affairs at the
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