General Meade's horse, "Old "Baldy," was wounded around 7:15 p.m. on July 2, near Meade's headquarters at the Leister cottage, as Meade was leading the remnants of the Second and Third Divisions of the First Corps south toward the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge. (About this time a shell exploded in the ranks of the 16th Maine, wounding one officer and seven enlisted men, out of an estimated 67 enlisted men still remaining in their ranks.) Meade rode "Blackey" on July 3, according to Meade's staff officer (and son), Captain George Meade.
[Bachelder Papers, II:857]