Major-General George G. Mead to Major-Generals Oliver Otis Howard and Henry W. Slocum, July 5, 1863

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,

July 5, 1863.

Commanding Officer Twelfth Corps:

In consequence of information received from General Sedgwick of the enemy in his presence, the movement ordered will be stopped where it is until further orders. Send a staff officer to these headquarters to-night for orders.

Very respectfully, &c.,

 S. WILLIAMS,

 Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to commanding officer Eleventh Corps.)

SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 125; 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. 533