GDG- Pre-Gettysburg Rebel positions

[Tom Ryan]

	On May 27, 1863, General Hooker's intelligence staff chief, Col. George
Sharpe, wrote a position report on Lee's army that was sitting across the
Rappahannock River from the Union army a few days prior to the beginning of
the Gettysburg Campaign.

	Does anyone know any sources that would verify the accuracy of this report?
In other words sources that discuss the position of the Army of Northern
Virginia units on or around this date.  Also, is there a sketch or map
available that shows the location of these units?

	The first three paragraphs of the report reads as follows (the source is
OR, vol. 25, part II, page 528):

"Brigadier General S. WILLIAMS, Assistant Adjutant-General:

SIR: By direction of the general commanding, I furnish the following
memoranda of the position of the enemy and other data obtained within the
last few days:

1. The enemy's line in front of us is much more contracted than during the
winter. It extends from Banks' Ford, on a line parallel with the river, to
near Moss Neck. Anderson's division is on their left. McLaw's is next, and
in rear of Fredericksburg. Early is massed about Hamilton's Crossing, and
Trimble's is directly in the rear of Early Rodes' (D. H. Hill's old
division) is farther to the right, and back from the river, and A. P. Hill
is the right of their line, resting nearly on Moss Neck. Each of these six
divisions have five brigades.

2. Pickett's division, of six brigades, has come up from Suffolk, and is at
Taylorsville, near Hanover Junction.

3. Hood's division, of four brigades, has also left from the front of
Suffolk, and is between Louisa Court-House and Gordonsville."

	The Army of Northern Virginia would begin to leave these positions six days
later on June 3 on their way to Culpeper and their trek northward.

Tom