The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-10-29
q, FRIDAY MORNING. grOBE 20 8 {;

s0 OCTOBER % & 1875.
Sausse, a nom sdmysneine m i idirthSs wess aud
|iBferrepting our Conn I1unication with Wiz.
gfpf e AccordfngI II TIE oreinent agafns,
Harrisburg was aband doned, and the next
dsy General Lee fssued orders for the coni
csntfstfon oT ar ,his troops Of Cashtown, !
Yitlsge i've miles tom GstEy ysbhf9, and on
fhe direct road which spisses through thai
piace % BaitImofe. s.f'a ns a'lt 81 s9s}ss =
--HooxgR,S RLANe-
.sThe report Of LsngstTeegs sscous Was true
and lice had keenly tdiyinedi hts enemy.
taaenttonA Yof5 Hooker had moved forward
into Maryland and had given directions u
Geuetm sReyholtz, hof commanded the
fight wing Of the, army, t1;saize tho noun
tain passes which sha Sefibeen mentioned ianf
thems inatheEYaisey between the South; Meun'
tain and tines Gosoctani range; .Atqth Same
time be hsdlhimsef gone 10 Harper's FeEry
whence he proposed to mogei With athe
Twelfth corps and the garris,u thereG oi
u,000i mem directly npou saW llliamsport,
thus seEering lLee'sglina, OF eommnnication
70 Eirgtnia andstopp!a9 the strausit Of sup
Fpliesiwhieh hbwas ssnlling back In immense
quantities from PennsyiSanis.1i,s I.5ia llstj
On the morning OF the 9th OF June heh had
seated himself and was engaged ftin
writing an IL order for the abaHdcn.
ment of that post at. daylight, with a
syiew r to proceeding with this plan
oE operations: But just at that moment q
dispatch was received from General Hailecs
requiring the garrison to remain there. The
hetec officer, whose gseliconceitEWas.n only
-eqnafled by bis capacity, excited the indig,
nation OF Ho0ker by thus frammeiling him
while in the face of Lees army withinstruc.
tons full Of folly, for Harper's Ferry at this
juncture was q stras setic point of no earthly
consequence; and rather than submit tosneh
interference he at once requested to be re,
heved OF command Of the Army Of the Patoe
mac. His request. was at once granted. On
the night of the same day Major. @ General
e. C.. Meade, commanding the Fifth corps
Of the ;Army.of the Potomac, was aslefp in
his tent near Frederick, Md, when he was
aroused by General Hardie, bearer of dis.
patches from Washington. Meade, who,bad
severely criticised Hooker for his alleged In.
capacity at ce1lorsVilIe, supposed that
he WIS about to be placed under arrest by
that officer, who had threatened to do so, and
he Immediately inquired Of General Hardie
IF he came for that purpose. The latter,
hevading the question, struck light and
placed in bis hand an order directing him to
assume command Of the Army of the Poto'
mad, q and committing to him all the pow.
ers of the Executive and the Constitution ia
the end that he might. WELD .untrammelled I'd
all the resources Of the nation to meet the
emergency OF the INVASION i:.,.
On the next day, June %, while yet Lee
was threatening Harrisburg, Meade assumed
command; and on the 29th, ignorant thai
Lee had abandoned that movement, he de,
termined to move at once from the vicinity
OF Frederick toward Harrisburg, to compe
Lee TO uss Meade's2 lsngusge) seto fooss
his hold on the Snsqnehannah a6G
meet me In battle at some poiuf.5
Accordingly, on the very day that Lee'
columns moved eastward toward Baltimore
IN order to counteract supposed maneuvr,
upon bis communications, Meade, equally
| iguorant Of his antagonists change or front
moved northward to stay supposed ad
vance upon Harrisburg And, adding t
these complications. Stuart, who had swep
around Meade's Hank, was at the same fimt
moving toward Carlisle, be himself heini
as ignorant OF Lees intentions as Meade
aud suppcsing that he would find bis com
mapder upon the line Of the Susquehannah
Now, right la the line of Meade's nofthwart
march. and Of Lees eastward march, lie
the old.fashioned town or Gettysburg, ant
TO that point the two hostile forces were nov
conyerging, each ia utter darkness 'as to th
| others movements, and little imagining tha
| that sc stquestered hamlet was destined to- be
come the sea1e Of. q tremendous struggle
/ which would make its name resound through
out the ages .as memorable as that Of Wa
| terlOo. 80 2i1 --!sS iStA.s
@j>...' mi THE 39rH OF JUNE, "l15;r.
The 30th or june was day Of busy pr
paratiop. On: that day the new commando
of the Federal army Issued his orders 9
march, directing the seven corps Of ghic
| bis forces were composed to move as fo
lows: The Third to Emmettsburg, Secon
| to Taneytowu, Fifth to Hanover, Twelfth t
Two Taverns, Sixth to Manchester, Will
the First md Eleventh, constituting, wit
the Tnird the right wing, under Reynolds
we're to proceed with Buford's !, cav
AIRY division to Gettysburg. That sam
morning. Pettigrew's brigade, Of Heth'
division, HIPS corps. which was en-
gagged in gathering supplies, approach
ed Gettysburg on the Cashtown road
and its head Of column had reached th
crest OF Seminary Ridge within easy cannon
shot OF the town, when at the same tim
the advance of Buford's cavalry reached th
town from the opposite direction. The Con
federate brigade retired to Cashtown, som
five miles distant, and, Buford occupying
the place, established his division IN front
along or near TIE lihe Of Willoughb
run, covering the approaches to 1t b.
| the Chambersburg, Mummasburg, Car
isle, and Harrisburg roads. Geners
Reynolds. with the First and Eleventh
corps, came at the same time t
| within q few miles OF Gettysburg, o.
| the Emmettsburg road, and halted for th
night. That evening Meade became salts
| fed, from tidings received, thst Lee wa
moving towards Gettysburg but neither b
nor General Lee seemed to have had an
knowledge of the great strategic const
quence of that place; and toe latter. sti
I without report from bis cavalry, ftiy terme
the .seyes Of the army" was gropin
/ blndly for his enemy, unconscious toa
Meade's advance columns were within fe'
hours march Of bis own. y = + ~.
t THE FIRST DAY OF JULY,
/ With the dawn of July 1st Heth's an
i Pender's division, of .HilPs corps, salIie
1 forth from Cashtown to- reconnoitee aod a
I sail the force seen BY Pettigrew the day b.
fore; and at the same time Rodes's and Ea
Iy's divisions started for Csshtown froI
i Heidlersburg, where they had rested the pr
4 ceding night. Lopgstreet,s corps slow.
brought up Lees rear from Chambersburl
\ and Johnson's division was set over II