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nally across the intervalbetween Cemetery andSeminary ridges, cross-ing the latter two milesfrom Ziegler’s Grove.From Peach Orchardto Ziegler’s is nearly amile and a half. Forhalf a mile the roadruns along a ridge atright angles to thatof Devil’s Den, whichslopes back to PlumRun. The angle at thePeach Orchard is thusformed by the inter-section of two boldridges, one from Devil’sDen, the other alongthe Emmitsburg road-It is distant about 600yards from the woodwhich skirts the wholelength of SeminaryRidge and covers themovement of troopsbetween it and WH'loughby Run, half amile beyond. South ofthe Round Top and Devil’s Den ridge the country is open, and the principalobstacles to free movement are the fences — generally of stone — which sur-round the numerous fields.
As our troops came up they were assigned to places on the line: theTwelfth Corps, General A. S. Williams,— vice Slocum, commanding the right'wing,— to Culp’s Hill, on Wadsworth’s right; Second Corps to CemeteryRidge — Hays’s and Gibbon’s divisions, from Ziegler’s to the clump of trees,Caldwell’s to the short ridge to its left and rear. This ridge had been occu-pied by the Third Corps, which was now directed to prolong Caldwell’s line toRound Top, relieving Geary’s division, which had been stationed during thenight on the extreme left, with two regiments at the base of Little RoundTop. The Fifth Corps was placed in reserve near the Rock Creek crossingthe Baltimore pike; the Artillery Reserve and its large trains were parked ina central position on a cross-road from the Baltimore pike to the Taneytovmroad; Buford’s cavalry, except Merritt’s brigade (then at Emmitsburg), ^ aSnear Round Top, from which point it was ordered that morning to Wesl'minster, thus uncovering our left dank; Kilpatrick’s and Gregg’s divisions
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