GETTYSBURG Harry took many messages that night, and he witnessed the gathering of the generals about Lee.

He saw Ewell come, hobbling on his crutches, eager for battle and disappointed that they had not pushed the victory.
Hill returned again, refusing to yield to his illness.

And there was Longstreet, thick-bearded, the best fighter that Lee had since the death of Jackson; McLaws, Hood, Heth, Pender, Jubal Early, Anderson and others, veterans of many battles, great and small.
They talked long and earnestly and pointed many times to the battlefield and the opposing heights.

While they talked, a man appeared among the men in blue on Cemetery Hill, accompanied only by a staff officer and an orderly.

He had ridden a long distance, and naturally lean and haggard, these traits in his appearance were exaggerated by weariness and anxiety.