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Movements of the enemy upon its left flank, being frequently compelled tochange the front of the regiments on that flank to repel attacks from thatdirection.

XJp to this time I had seen nothing of MeLaws’s division, which was tohave extended our left and to have moved to the attack at the same time. Itherefore halted my line, which had become broken and disorganized by thetoughness of the ground over which it had been fighting, and placing it in asadvantageous a position as possible for receiving any attack that the Federals

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AT THE BASE AND ON THE LEFT SLOPE OF LITTLE HOUND TOP. FROM PHOTOGRAPHS.

^ht be disposed to make, I hurried back to the ridge from which we had•-finally advanced. I found McLaws still in position there, his troops

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aung considerably from a severe fire of artillery from the opposite hills. Ialff ln ^ orrn °d by General Kershaw, who held the right of this division, thathe understood the general instructions that the forward movementj s f° be taken up from the right, he had not yet received the order to move,a] ^ n his division commander. I pointed out the position of Hood’s division,j u, U e d the necessity of immediate support on its left. General Kershawflip es ^ e d me to designate the point on which his right flank should be} n t(!d ’ an< ^ Promptly moved to the attack, the movement being taken uphe whole division.

0 j- ien Hood’s division first attacked, General Meade , alarmed for the safetyUtal* 5 w hig, and doubtless fully alive to the importance of holding sofop a U >n d as Round Top and its adjacent spurs, commenced sending reen-rr ients to the threatened points. We encountered some of these in our