Despatches have been received here from our brave Army of the Potomac up to last night. It is announced that Gens. Barlow and Schimmelpfenning were both wounded and fell into the enemy’s hands in the engagement of the day before yesterday. They, with Generals Reynolds and Paul killed, were the only Union general officers who met with casualties. It is definitely stated, we hear, in the despatches referred to above, that the battle was fought on our part only by the First and Eleventh army corps; while the rebel force engaged against them were believed to embrace two-thirds of Lee’s entire army.
At the end of the fight, after repulsing the rebels’ last attack, General Meade shifted his position to the heights above Gettysburg, where he awaited the coming up of the five other corps of his army that had not participated in the engagement. In that position the enemy had declined to attack him up to last evening, by which time the balance of our troops had gotten up and were duly in line. Lee was at that time concentrating all his troops near by, but ceased manifesting the purpose of renewing the attack which at 4.30 p.m. he seemed about to do. It is judged here that Lee was not attacked yesterday, because our troops, as they came up, were necessarily too mach fatigued to permit them wisely to be thrown into action against an unfatigued enemy. From the tenor of the dispatches, it is believed here that if the enemy declined renewing the attack this morning, General Meade would at once engage his whole line.
The Evening Star, Washington, DC
