As the change of orders made Gettysburg prominent as the point of impact, the positions of the commands relative thereto and their distances therefrom are items of importance in considering the culmination of events.
POSITIONS OF ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, NIGHT OF JUNE 30.
General Lee’s head-quarters, Greenwood.
First Corps, Chambersburg, twenty-four miles to Gettysburg; part at Greenwood, sixteen miles.
Second Corps and Jenkins’s cavalry, Heidlersburg, ten miles; part near Green Village, twenty-three miles (Johnson’s division and trains).
Third Corps, near Greenwood, sixteen miles, and Cashtown, eight miles.
Stuart’s cavalry, circling between York and Carlisle, out of sight.
Robertson’s cavalry, in Virginia, beyond reach.
Imboden’s cavalry, at Hancock, out of sight.
The Confederates not intending to precipitate battle.