When the Second Corps had marched away from Carlisle, they had left the First North Carolina Sharpshooters Battalion under Major Rufus Watson Wharton, who had served as the occupied town's military governor for the last three days, to wait till all units had left and then serve as rearguard.  After paroling prisoners General Jenkins' mounted infantry brought in, Wharton and his men left Carlisle around dawn.  That afternoon, Union troops under General William Smith reached the town, to the great, but temporary, relief of the population. (By John Osborne)  

General Richard Ewell's Second Corps had been ordered to concentrate on Gettysburg and Rodes' Division left the Carlisle area and made its way south over muddy roads on a rain-filled day.  They passed through Mount Holly, then called Papertown, and through York Springs, then known as Petersburg, and camped for the night about ten miles north of the rendezvous point at Heidelsburg, Pennsylvania. (By John Osborne)