Or at least consolidated on and dug into Seminary Ridge and forced Mead to attack him. (Meade admitted later that he would have done so.) This is the course of action Edward Porter Alexander thinks they should have done. Lee's excuses for not doing so are unpersuasive.
The defensive, entrench, and wait for the enemy to attack methodology had worked wonders for the ANV up to that point. I think they should have continued it.
Lee’s offensive moves in the past up to that point had been covered heavily by the fog of war. He was blatant and not even trying to hide where he was going to attack on July 2nd and 3rd. Dumb moves kill people and cost you battles.
A small foot note in history was what happened right after Pickett’s Charge. Gen. Alexander, Lee’s artillery commander, informed Gen. Lee that he was without any ammo to fend off a Union counter attack. The reserve artillery ammo wagon train was almost an hour away because of a bureaucratic screw up. For almost an hour a huge opportunity was lost to the unaware Union forces. It was said that during this hour was the only time that Lee actually “lost his cool” composure. If he moved his artillery the Union would know he had no ammo, so he had to wait it out.