. The Civil War and the Constitution, 1859-1865 . corps drewslowly back to the strong ground on Culps Hill andCemetery Hill. At this moment of defeat, in the late afternoon, Han-cock arrived on the scene of battle. He had been sentforward by Meade to take command of the two corps atGettysburg. After placing the troops and artillery inposition to defend the new line, he was reinforced bythe arrival of the corps of Sickles and Slocum. Leehad not followed up his success vigorously, but had de-cided to wait on Seminary Hill and in the village ofGettysburg for Longstreet to come up. He did notimmed
. The Civil War and the Constitution, 1859-1865 . corps drewslowly back to the strong ground on Culps Hill andCemetery Hill. At this moment of defeat, in the late afternoon, Han-cock arrived on the scene of battle. He had been sentforward by Meade to take command of the two corps atGettysburg. After placing the troops and artillery inposition to defend the new line, he was reinforced bythe arrival of the corps of Sickles and Slocum. Leehad not followed up his success vigorously, but had de-cided to wait on Seminary Hill and in the village ofGettysburg for Longstreet to come up. He did notimmediately close the Emmetsburg road, and the cen-tral column of the Federal army, composed of the corpsof Sickles and Slocum, came unhindered up to theCemetery Eidge during the night of the 1st. Hancock immediately transferred the command toSlocum, and set out for Taney town to find Meadeand give him personal information in regard to thesituation. He met his own corps a few miles from thebattle-field and placed it within easy supporting The Country from the Potomac to Harrisburg. GETTYSBURG 169 The two corps commanded by Sykes and Sedgwickwere, however, some twenty or thirty miles away,Sykes near Hanover, and Sedgwick in the neighbor-hood of Manchester. Meade arrived at Cemetery Hillabout midnight, and Sykess troops came up about tenoclock in the forenoon of the 2d. The entire Army ofthe Potomac, with the exception of Sedg- The situa-wicks corps, was now concentrated on the mining ofhills and ridges south-east and south of Get- the2d-tysburg, under the command of its general-in-chief; andthe entire Confederate army under Lee, with the excep-tion of some six or seven thousand men of Longstreetscorps and Stuarts cavalry, was concentrated on SeminaryRidge and in the village of Gettysburg. The Federalline extended from Culps Hill, on the right, to LittleRound Top, on the left, forming a curve with the con-vex side to the Confederates, having thus the advantageof shorter in
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