KERSHAW'S BRIGADE AT GETTYSBURG.

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regiment, Colonel deSaussure, was thrown totheir right to supportthem on that flank.

In the meantime Gen-eral Hood’s division wasmoving in our rear tothe right, to gain theenemy’s left flank, andI was directed to com-mence the attack ass °on as General Hoodbecame engaged, swing-mg around toward thebeach Orchard, and atthe same time estab-lishing connection withHood on my right, ande °dperating with him.

H was understood thatbe was to sweep downthe Federal lines in adirection perpendicular1° our line of battle.

^ Was informed thatbarksdale would move^ith me and conform to my movement; that Semmes would follow me,and Wofford follow Barksdale. These instructions I received in sundry mes-Sa ges from General Longstreet and General McLaws , and in part by personalCommunication with them. In my center-front was a stone farm-house

These buildings were

MAJOR-GENERAL LAFAYETTE MdLAWS, C. S. A. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.

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Pposed to he Rose’s], with a barn also of stone. _ __

bbout five hundred yards from our position, and on a line with the crest ofbe Peach Orchard hill.

The Federal infantry was posted along the front of the orchard, and alsothe face looking toward Rose’s. Six of their batteries were in position,mee at the orchard near the crest of the hill, and the others about two hun-J-'ed yards in rear, extending in the direction of Little Round Top. Behindose’s was a morass, and, on the right of that, a stone wall running parallelour line, some two hundred yards from Rose’s. Beyond the morass wasa stony hill, covered with heavy timber and thick undergrowth, interspersedJTh bowlders and large fragments of rock, extending some distance towarde Federal main line, and in the direction of Round Top, and to our leftail d in rear of the orchard and the batteries posted there. Beyond the stoneWa b last mentioned, and to the right of the stony hill, was a dense forestlending far to the right. From the morass a small stream ran into thisVV °°b and along the base of the mountain. Between the stony hill and