to York and Carlyle. Lee learned later that day that the federal army was at Frederick and that their commanding officer had been replaced. Lee decided to move his entire army east of the mountain to attempt to engage the feds. At the same time, the Union officer General Meade was moving his army north. Both armies were converging on Gettysburg. The Confederates soon found out that Gettysburg was already occupied by General John Buford.
             On July 1st, the Rebels approached Gettysburg from the north and west since, for a week, they had done nothing but rampage through the Pennsylvanian countryside taking livestock, food, clothes, and other necessities as well as moving to capture the state capital of Harrisburg. A Rebel division, headed by General Henry Heth, set up their camp about 4 miles west of Gettysburg at night. Heth heard that there was a hidden storage of shoes in the town and said to his corps. Commander General Ambrose P. Hill, "If there is no objection, General, I will take my division there tomorrow and get those shoes."
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