Maine at Gettysburg [electronic resource] . ong street was on his right, occupying Seminary Ridge,and about a mile distant from Cemetery Hill, with Hill in thecentre and Ewell on the left. The Union position was in the following order, beginningon the right: Slocum on Culps Hill; Howard on CemeteryHill; Newton, who succeeded Doubleday, commanding theFirst Corps ; Hancock ; and Sickles ; the latter occupying thelow ground between Hancock on his right and Little RoundTop on his left. The Twelfth Corps had come upon theground after the fighting of the first day. The Second Corpsarrived on the mor
Maine at Gettysburg [electronic resource] . ong street was on his right, occupying Seminary Ridge,and about a mile distant from Cemetery Hill, with Hill in thecentre and Ewell on the left. The Union position was in the following order, beginningon the right: Slocum on Culps Hill; Howard on CemeteryHill; Newton, who succeeded Doubleday, commanding theFirst Corps ; Hancock ; and Sickles ; the latter occupying thelow ground between Hancock on his right and Little RoundTop on his left. The Twelfth Corps had come upon theground after the fighting of the first day. The Second Corpsarrived on the morning of the second day. Grahams andWards brigades of the First Division of the Third Corps cameupon the ground about seven oclock on the night of the firstday, followed by two brigades of the Second Division late inthe night. One brigade from each division, left at Emmits-burg with artillery to guard the mountain pass, came up toGettysburg in the forenoon of the second. The Fifth andand Sixth corps, by a hard nights march, arrived upon the. SECOND DAY OF BATTLE. 9 ground the second day. The morning of the second day wasoccupied by Meade in strengthening his position and watchingfor Lees attack. He believed that Lee would attack him onthe right of our line, and prepared to move against Lee fromthat point. He finally decided to remain on the defensive. Lee having perfected his plans, directed Longstreet, withhis two divisions, then upon the field, consisting of more than15,000 men, to attack a salient thrown out by Sickles from thegeneral line on our left at the Emmitsburg Road. Neither armythen occupied Round Top and Longstreet endeavored to captureit by extending his right in that direction. Sickles thin line,of less than 10,000 men, resisted Longstreet for three hoursalong the front of the Third Corps position ; the main fightingof the First Division being from 4 : 15 to 6 : 30 p. m., and of theSecond Division from 6 to 8 p. m. Towards the last of it, onboth fronts, other troo
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