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Whitelaw Reid, a Civil War correspondent for The Cincinnati Gazette beginning in 1862, traveled by train from Washington, D.C., on June 30, 1863, and reached General George Gordon Meade’s headquarters outside Taneytown the next day. There he interviewed Meade about his battle plans and observed soldiers preparing for battle, capturing the urgency they felt. Reid sent his July 1 dispatch by courier from a Taneytown tavern to the Frederick telegraph office, then watched soldiers march from Taneytown to Gettysburg, writing of the “masses of blue coats toiling forward.” On July 2 and 3 he watched the fighting from Cemetery Hill and also moved across the battlefield to speak with four Union commanders about the fighting on July 1, filling feverishly scratched notes with the sounds and sights of battle. On July 8, his story on the Battle of Gettysburg appeared on the front page of The Cincinnati Gazette under the byline “Agate.”
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