No. I mean on July 1. Lee was going into battle and his cavalry under the command of Jeb Stuart was, uh, off somewhere else.
Ah sorry. On July 1st I believe Stuart was up near Carlisle.
He was "visiting" with General Custer.
Not true. Stuart left something like two brigades of cavalry with Lee, concededly under subordinates he didn’t like. But they did a capable job of screening Lee’s right flank on the march north and reconning ahead. what Lee didn’t have was Stuart. But Lee’s orders [read suggestions] left Stuart the latitude to try tanother risde around the Union Army. This time it didn’t work. But Lee had cavalry. He just didn’t use it well.
And as for the North’s luck, to paraphrase Georger Pickett explaining the South’s loss, the Army of the Potomac had something to do with that.
I think Jeb gets a bad rap in history, first he was given orders by Lee to scout the Army of the Potomac to see if it was following him. I'm not quiet sure about how many miles he traveled in doing this mission but it looks like he traveled quiet a bit in doing this mission. It looks like maybe this mission lasted about a week and covered about 70 miles or so. To expect Jeb to stay far behind you as you march off far ahead of him into Pennsylvania wasn't to smart. Both Lee and Staurt were working in enemy territory, so Lee should of known that the odds of Staurt running into unexpected trouble would be great, which he did. Considering the mission that Lee had in mind he should of not sent so many Cavalry men off with Staurt and should of kept half of them in closer vicinity of his troops positions. If Stuart had a smaller mission like say a two day mission before he met with Lee again it probably would of turn out different, considering Staurt ran into probably many more skirmishes then he had expected which slowed him down. I think at this point Lee was taking too big of a gamble, and the cards in his hands were not that great.