Reserve Brigade
First Division - Cavalry Corps
Army of the Potomac
Cavalry Corps First Division
Reserve Brigade
Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt
6th Pennsylvania
1st. 2d. 5th. 6th. United States Cavalry
July 1 Engaged in picketing and patrolling the roads through the mountains detachments scouting the country about Hagerstown Cavetown and other points.
July 2 Marched to Emmitsburg Md.
July 3 At noon marched four miles on the road to Gettysburg met Confederate detachments and for more than a mile drove them from stone fences, barricades, and other positions being engaged four hours until the operations were brought to a close by heavy rain. The 6th United States under Major S. H. Starr was detached and marched towards Fairfield to intercept a Confederate wagon train supposed to be in that vicinity but encountered a superior force and was compelled to fall back with heavy loss.
Casualties Killed 1 officer 27 men. Wounded 12 officers 104 men. Captured or missing 6 officers 268 men. Total 418.
Marker is on Emmitsburg Road (Business U.S. 15), on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
