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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Pennsylvania campaign--second day at Gettysburg . (search)
Pennsylvania campaign--second day at Gettysburg. [from our own Correspondent.] Army of Northern Virginia, March 18th, 1864.
In two previous letters I have adverted to the parts which Ewell's corps, and Heth and Pender, of Hill's corps, bore in the first day's fight at Gettysburg.
To-day I propose to speak of the second day's fight.
Pickett's division of Longstreet's corps crossed the Potomac on the 25th.
Hood and McLaws, of the same corps, on the 26th, and these three divisions reached Chambersburg on the 27th of June. Here the whole corps remained for two days. From this point Hood and McLaws moved to Greenwood.
Pickett was left at Chambersburg to guard and bring up the rear.
On the 1st of July the corps received orders to move to Gettysburg.
It was detained, however, several hours by Johnson's division and the train of wagons which came into the road from Shippensburg.
McLaws's division, notwithstanding this delay, reached Marsh Creek, four miles from Gettysburg, soo