of six guns. Leaving two guns
and a regiment to hold my first position and cover the road leading
to Gettysburg, I shifted the remaining portion of my command forming
a new line of battle at right angles with my former position. The
enemy had obtained correct range of my new position, and was pouring
solid shot and shell into my command with great accuracy. Placing two
sections of battery "M," Second regular artillery, in position, I
ordered them to silence the enemy's battery, which order,
notwithstanding the superiority of the enemy's position, was done in
a very short space of time. My line as it then existed, was shaped
like the letter "L." The shorter branch, supported by one section of
battery "M" (Clark's), supported by four squadrons of the Sixth
Michigan cavalry, faced toward Gettysburg, covering the pike; the
long branch, composed of the two remaining sections of battery "M,"
supported by a portion of the Sixth Michigan cavalry on the left, and
the First Michigan cavalry on the right--with the Seventh Michigan
cavalry still further to the right and in advance--was held in
readiness to repel any attack on the Oxford (Low Dutch) road.[11] The
Fifth Michigan was dismounted and ordered to take position in front
of my center and left. The First Michigan was held in column of
squadrons to observe the movements of the enemy. I ordered fifty men
to be sent one mile and a half on the Oxford (Low Dutch) road, and a
detachment of equal size on the York (Hanover) road, both detachments
being under the command of the gallant Major Weber (of the Sixth)
who, from time to time, kept me so well informed of the movements of
the enemy, that I was enabled to make my dispositions with complete
success."

General Custer says further, that at twelve o'clock he received an order
directing him, on being relieved by a brigade of the Second division, to
move to the left and form a junction with Kilpatrick; that on the
arrival of Colonel McIntosh's brigade he prepared to execute the order;
but, to quote his own language:

"Before I had left my position, Brigadier General Gregg, commanding
the Second division, arrived with his entire command. Learning the
true condition of affairs, and rightly conjecturing the enemy was
making his dispositions for vigorously attacking our position,
Brigadier General Gregg ordered me to remain in the position I th