Many brave and gallant officers encouraged them and a reserve had already thrown up strong entrenchments beyond the town on Cemetery Hill, to which they retreated and once more faced their enemy.
Harry and Dalton stopped at Gettysburg, seeing the battle of the vanguards won, and turned back.

Their place was with the general to the staff of whom they belonged, and they believed they would not have to look far.

With a battle that had lasted eight hours Lee would surely be upon the field by this time, or very near it.
There were plenty of riderless horses, and capturing two, one of which had belonged to a Union officer, they went back in search of their commander.

It was a terrible field over which they passed, strewed with human wreckage, smoke and dust still floated over everything.

They inquired as they advanced of officers who were just arriving upon the field, and one of them, pointing, said: "There is General Lee." Harry and Dalton saw him sitting on his horse on Seminary Ridge, his figure immovable, his eyes watching the Union brigades as they retreated up the slopes of the opposite hill.