HEADQUARTERS,
Taneytown, July 1, 1863 – 4.30 p.m.
Major-General SEDGWICK,
Commanding Sixth Corps:
The major-general commanding directs that you move your
command up to Taneytown to-night; your train, excepting ambulances and
ammunition, to Westminster, and south of the railroad, as ordered. I regret to
inform you that Major-General Reynolds was killed at Gettysburg this morning.
You will inform General Sykes of your movement and the
cavalry.
I am, very
respectfully, your obedient servant,
DANL. BUTTERFIELD,
Major-General, Chief
of Staff.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 38; 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. 465
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