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MAP 17.
Positions July 2d,About 7:15 P. M. till after dark.
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advancing when, noticing the approach of the Fifth Corps, Warren rode tomeet it, caused Weed’s and Vincent’s brigades and Ilazleft’s battery to be
least tome, and General Meade directed the Fifth ArmyCorps to take position there. The battle was alreadybeginning to rage at the Peach Orchard, and before asingle man reached Round Top the whole line of theenemy moved on us in splendid array, shouting in themost confident tones. While I was still all alone withthe signal officer, the musket-halls began to fly around
us, and he was about to fold up his flags and withdraw,hut. remained, at my request, and kept waving themdefiance. Seeing troops going out on the Peach Orcharroad, T rode down the hill, and fortunately met mybrigade. General Weed, commanding it, had alreadypassed the point, and r took the responsibility to de-tach Colonel O’Rorke, the head of whose regiment 1