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same time gave orders for the attack to be made by my right — following upthe direction of the Emmitsburg road toward the Cemetery Ridge, holdingHood’s left as well as could be toward the Emmitsburg road, McLaws to fol-low the movements of Hood, attackingat the Peach Orchard the Federal ThirdCorps, with a part of R. H. Anderson’sdivision following the movements of Mc-Laws to guard his left flank. As soon asthe troops were in position, and we couldfind the points against which we shouldinarch and give the guiding points, theadvance was ordered — at half-past 3o’clock in the afternoon. The attack wasmade in splendid style by both divisions,and the Federal line was broken by thefirst impact. They retired, many of them,
Hi the direction of Round Top behindbowlders and fences, which gave themshelter, and where they received reen-forcements.
This was an unequal battle. GeneralLee ’s orders had been that when my ad-vance was made, the Second Corps (Ewell), on his left, should move and makea simultaneous attack; that the Third Corps (Hill) should watch closely andengage so as to prevent heavy massing in front of me. Ewell made no move
at all until about 8 o’clock at night,after the heat of the battle was over,his line having been broken by a callfor one of his brigades to go else-where. Hill made no move whatever,save of the brigades of his right di-vision that were covering our left.
When the battle of the 2d was over,General Lee pronounced it a success,as we were in possession of groundfrom which we had driven the Feder-als and had taken several field-pieces.The conflict had been fierce andbloody, and my troops had drivenback heavy columns and had encount-ered a force three or four times theirnumber, J but we had accomplishedlittle toward victorious results. Oursuccess of the first day had led us into
1 General Meade ’s report sliows that all of the Third and parts of the Second, Fifth, Sixth, and Twelfthcorps were engaged in the second day’s fight.— Editors.
r IGADIER-geneRAL WILLIAM BARKSDALE, C. S. A.,WOUNDED JULY 2, DIED JULY 3.
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-BRIGADIER-GENERAL PAUL SEMME 8, C. S. A.,MORTALLY WOUNDED, JULY 2.
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