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GENERAE MEADE’S HEADQUARTERS ON THE TANEYTOWN ROAD. FROM A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH.
General Meade arrived at Cemetery Hill at one o’clock came tlie target ol a heavy artillery fire which caused ain the morning of July 2d, and after daylight estab- scattering of officers and staffs and the headquarterslished his headquarters in a small farm-house on the signal corps. During the terrific cannonade which pr e ‘Taueytown road, little more than an eighth of a mile ceded Pickett’s cliargo on July 3d, Meade’s headquarterseast of Hancock’s line of battle, ■which was the Union received a still greater storm of shot and shell, with thecenter. In the afternoon of July 2d, headquarters be- same result _Editors.
ing, and his troops were under arms for the purpose by the time GeneralMeade had finished the moonlight inspection of his lines, when it was ascer-tained by a reconnoitering party sent out by Johnson, that the hill was occu-pied, and its defenders on the alert; and further, from a captured dispatchfrom General Sykes to General Slocum, that the Fifth Corps was on the Han-over road only four miles off, and would march at 4 A. M. for Culp’s Hill-Johnson thereupon deferred his attack and awaited Ewell’s instructions.
General Lee had, however, during the night determined to attack the Fed-eral left with Longstreet’s corps, and now instructed Ewell, as soon as heheard Longstreet’s guns, to make a diversion in his favor, to be converted, Hopportunity offered, into a real attack.
Early on the morning of July 2d, when nearly all the Confederate army hadreached Gettysburg or its immediate vicinity, a large portion of the Army the Potomac was still on the road. The Second Corps and Sykes, with twodivisions of the Fifth, arrived about 7 A. m., Crawford’s division not joininguntil noon; Lockwood’s brigade—two regiments from Baltimore —at 8; DeTrobriand’s and Burling’s brigades of the Third Corps, from Emmitsburg)at 9, and the Artillery Reserve and its large ammunition trains from Taney-town at 10:30 a. m. Sedgwick’s Sixth Corps, the largest in the army, after along night inarch from Manchester, thirty-four miles distant, reached RockCreek at 4 p. m. The rapidity with which the army was assembled wascreditable to it and to its commander. The heat was oppressive, the long