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out of the Union intrenclnnents by Geary and linger, aided by Shaler’sbrigade of the Sixth Corps. They made one or two attempts to regainpossession, but were unsuccessful, and a demonstration to turn Johnson’sleft caused him to withdraw his command to Rock Creek. At the close ofthe war the scene of this conflict was covered by a forest of dead trees,leaden bullets proving as fatal to them as to the soldiers whose bodies werethickly strewn beneath them.
Longstreet’s arrangements had been made to attack Round Top, and hisorders issued with a view to turning it, when General Lee decided that theassault should be made on Cemetery Ridge by Pickett’s and Pettigrew’s di-visions, with part of Trimble’s. Longstreet formed these in two lines—Picketton the right, supported by Wilcox; Pettigrew on the left, with Lane’s andScales’s brigades under Trimble in the second line. Hill was ordered to holdhis line with the remainder of his corps,— six brigades,— give Longstreetassistance if required, and avail himself of any success that might be gained.Finally a powerful artillery force, about one hundred and fifty guns, wasordered to prepare the way for the assault by cannonade. The necessaryarrangements caused delay, and before notice of this could bo received byEwell, Johnson, as we have seen, was attacked, so that the contest was overon the left before that at the center was begun. The hoped-for concert ofaction in the Confederate attacks was lost from the beginning.
On the Federal side Hancock’s corps held Cemetery Ridge with Robinson’sdivision, First Corps, on Hays’s right in support, and Doubleday’s at the
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