HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF
THE POTOMAC,
Battle-field near
Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863.
The commanding general directs that corps commanders cause
all their stragglers and men absent from the ranks to be sent for and brought
up. The utmost exertion is to be made by all, and every man must stand to the
work.
The ordnance officers should be required to see that all the
arms and equipments scattered over the field are picked up and sent to the rear
in the empty ammunition wagons.
By command of Major-General Meade:
S. WILLIAMS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 103; 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. 503
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