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2nd (search for this): chapter 32
maintain himself, or in the strength of his position, that when the rebels partially broke our line in the afternoon of the 2d, he directed me to collect what cavalry I could, and prepare to cover the retreat of the army; and I was thus engaged until on 22d August, 1863, we find the following statement: Arrived near the battle-ground of Gettysburg at 5.30 A. M. on the 2d, and reported to the General commanding the Cavalry Corps, and by his directions held my batteries in reserve near the batt lines as they were then held —as contrasted with that of General Doubleday, which is as follows:— On the evening of the 2d, after sending Pleasonton off, General Meade called a council of war and put the question to the corps commanders whether te second day of July last, and particularly in reference to the proceedings of a council of war, held on the night of the second, has been received. In reply I have to state, that I was frequently with the Commanding General on that day, and was l
July 2nd, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 32
to retreat from the field of Gettysburg throughout nearly the whole of the 2d of July, 1863. It has been attempted to prove this in various ways, in face of General the following despatch to General Halleck:— Headquarters near Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, 3 P. M. Major-General Halleck, General-in-Chief: I have concentrated myeneral Alfred Pleasonton, in which he says that— General Meade, on the 2d of July, 1863, at Gettysburg, about five o'clock in the afternoon, gave me the order to count there of the second day's battle at Gettysburg. He says: On the 2d of July, 1863, that portion of the army that was on the field was placed in a defensive are taken from the original minutes of the Council at Gettysburg, of the 2d of July, 1863, and are among the papers of General Meade. Questions asked 1. Undef the corps commanders had been reached. Headquarters army of the Potomac, July 2, 1863, 11 P. M. General Halleck: The enemy attacked me about 4 P. M. this day,
July 1st, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 32
g to the late work of General Doubleday, he does not produce one scintilla of testimony in support of his accusation, to refute which assertion is the ostensible motive of General Doubleday's late letter. In order to show how utterly inconsistent all General Meade's actions were with any such intention as that ascribed to him by General Doubleday, it is necessary to take a retrospective view of what occurred just previous to the time specified by General Doubleday. On the evening of July 1, 1863, General Meade was at Taneytown, distant from Gettysburg about thirteen miles. He had made every exertion to hasten the troops to the front, and was preparing to go to Gettysburg in person, when General Hancock, just returned from the front, reported to him. That officer's report as to the advantages of the ground for fighting a battle there, and as to the dispositions that had been made, confirmed him in his intention of fighting there, and determined him upon proceeding at once to that
June 28th (search for this): chapter 32
a retreat of the army. The confidence that General Meade had in General Hunt is incidentally shown in his testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, and that which he had for the others, by his having invited them successively on June 28, as soon as he had taken command of the army, to assume temporarily, in addition to their own respective duties, those of chief-of-staff. General Meade intended that General Humphreys should eventually fill this position, and had so notified hird me at Gettysburg. Just before the battle of Gettysburg, leaves a short space of time to have allowed of such a belief, considering that General Meade had not expected to be placed in command of the army; that he took command of it on the 28th of June; that the corps were widely separated, feeling for the enemy, preparatory to concentration; and that battle evidently could not be long postponed, as in point of fact the first day's encounter was on the 1st of July. It is strange that Genera
October 16th, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 32
bolster it up by pointing out that there is further testimony of General Pleasonton's before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, which has probably escaped notice, and which, he would persuade us, is quite sufficient to bear out his charge. Let us now examine that, and see what it amounts to. In the Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, Part 2d of the Supplement, will be found the testimony to which General Doubleday refers. It is in the form of a long letter, dated Oct. 16, 1865, addressed to the Committee by General Pleasonton, who had shortly after his first testimony before the Committee been relieved from duty with the Army of the Potomac, giving a history of his personal experiences throughout the whole of the Rebellion. The following is an extract from page 10 of this letter, which is General Pleasonton's account there of the second day's battle at Gettysburg. He says: On the 2d of July, 1863, that portion of the army that was on the field was placed
February 8th, 1883 AD (search for this): chapter 32
bleday, continuing to criticize Mr. Swinton's statements, makes the assertion that, during all this time General Meade was desirous of retreating, and he emphasizes it by italics. This desire to retreat was supplemented, he says, by acts which form part of the history of the battle. The only way in which this statement is reconcilable with fact is, that General Doubleday refers to his own history of the battle. As the only evidence, however, of his statement, he produces a letter of February 8, 1883, from General Alfred Pleasonton, in which he says that— General Meade, on the 2d of July, 1863, at Gettysburg, about five o'clock in the afternoon, gave me the order to get what cavalry and artillery I could, as soon as possible, and take up a position in rear to cover the retreat of the army from Gettysburg. I was thus occupied until ten o'clock at night, when I was recalled by an order from General Meade. Now, there is nothing on record that warrants either this assertion of Ge
April 1st, 1883 AD (search for this): chapter 32
Appendix Y Pamphlet published by Colonel Meade in reply to General Doubleday's letter in the New York times of April 1, 1883. see letter of April 2, 1864, page 186, Vol. II. (for General Doubleday's letter see Appendix X) Did General Meade desire to retreat at the battle of Gettysburg? George Meade, formerly Captain and Aide-De-Camp and Brevet Lieut.-Col. U. S. Army (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. 1883） I did not see or hear of the letter of General Abner Doubleday, published in the New York Times of April 1st, until my attention was called to it nearly a month afterward. But, in view of the fact of my previous silence, when General Doubleday has discussed the same topic, that does not account for my noticing it now or at all. I begin, therefore, with an apology for breaking that long silence, induced by the conviction that he had manifestly to the world failed to substantiate the assertions made in his history of the battle of Gettysburg. I have been actuated, heretofor
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