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immediate vicinity of Gettysburg without encountering the enemy, Captain Bond
left Sergeant Hammond Dorsey with six men as a picket, and then returned to
General Ewell, and reported no enemy near.

During the night Sergeant Dorsey captured three members of a Pennsylvania
battery, who, having been refused leave to go to their homes, had taken horses
and slipped away, thinking they could return before daylight without being
missed. These men gave General Ewell the first information he had of the where-
abouts of Meade's army. The next morning, July i, Ewell moved in the direction
of Gettysburg.

Company A was not engaged at Gettysburg, but was in possession of the
town, Captain Bond acting as provost marshal for three days.

On July 4 Captain Bond was ordered by General Ewell to stretch his company
across the front of his entire corps, remain until daylight, make careful observation
of the enemy's position, and then follow the corps. It was a dark, rainy, dismal
night that this little band kept their weary vigils, and daylight was never more
welcomed. But when day broke all was quiet along the company's front, and
Captain Bond drew in his men and reported to General Ewell about noon of the
5th, when he was ordered to pass to the front and assist in protecting the wagon
trains, which were expected to reach the Potomac at Williamsport during the
afternoon of the 6th.

In the interval that we have been following Company A, it is necessary to state
that the remaining companies of the First Maryland Cavalry had been temporarily
placed under command of Major Harry Gilmor at Winchester. That officer was
ordered by General Ewell to move forward to Boonsboro, and if possible reach the
Monocacy bridge, across that stream near Frederick, and destroy it. Major Gilmor
reached Frederick City with the First Maryland Cavalry, numbering about two
hundred men, captured some prisoners, but found the bridge too strongly defended
for cavalry to venture a successful attack. Major Gilmor then returned through
Frederick City to the top of South Mountain, near Boonsboro. From South
Mountain the First Maryland moved to Hagerstoxvn, where Major Gilmor was
ordered to join General George H. Steuart whose brigade had been detached from
Major-General Edward Johnson's Division and ordered to make a detour to the
left as far as McConnellsbnrg. Gilmor took the advance, and on approaching
McConnellsburg his command was fired upon from the mountain side. Hearing
the place was occupied, Major Gilmor charged through the town, but found no
enemy, they having made a hasty retreat upon his approach.

Steuart's command remained in McConnellsburg two days, and during that
time the First Maryland Cavalry was engaged in collecting horses and cattle from
the surrounding country, and in this they were very successful. Gilmor's orders,
however, were in effect to leave a pair of plow horses and milk cows on each farm.