HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
July 1, 1863 – 6 p.m.
Major-Generals
HANCOCK and DOUBLEDAY:
If
General Slocum is on the field, and I hope he is, of course he takes command.
Say to him I thought it prudent to leave a division of the Third Corps at Emmitsburg,
to hold in check any force attempting to come through there. It can be ordered
up to-night, if' necessary. Sedgwick is moving up here, and will be pushed
forward in the night, if required. It seems to me we have so concentrated that
a battle at Gettysburg is now forced on us, and that, if we get up all our
people, and attack with our whole force to-morrow, we ought to defeat the force
the enemy has.
Very respectfully, &c.,
GEO. G. MEADE,
Major-General, Commanding.
SOURCE:
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 2,
p. 39; The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records
of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 27, Part 3 (Serial
No. 45), p. 466
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