As Meade approached his old headquarters he heard firing on the crest above, and went up to ascertain the cause.

He found the charge had been repulsed and ejaculated "Thank God!" When Lee learned that Johnson had yielded his position on the right, and therefore could not co-operate with Pickett's advance, he sent Stuart's cavalry around to accomplish the same object by attacking the right and rear of our army.

Howard saw the rebel cavalry moving off in that direction, and David McM.

Gregg, whose division was near White's Creek where it crosses the Baltimore pike, received orders about noon to guard Slocum's right and rear.
Custer had already been contending with his brigade against portions of the enemy's force in that direction, when Gregg sent forward McIntosh's brigade to relieve him, and followed soon after with J.
Irvin Gregg's brigade.

Custer was under orders to join Kilpatrick's command, to which he belonged, but the exigencies of the battle soon forced Gregg to detain him.