Identifier: decisivebattless00knox (find matches)
Title: Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad) Battles Military history Military art and science Naval battles Naval history Naval art and science Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons New Rochelle, N.Y. : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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e all present, excepting15,000 men of the 6th corps who were sure to arrivebefore the day was over. The 1st and nth corps stilloccupied their old positions on Cemetery Hill. The2d was on the left of the 1st. Hays division wason the right, resting on Zieglers grove; Gibbons divisionwas in the centre. Caldwells division extended along thewater-line between Plum Run and Rock Creek. The3d corps was also on the left. The left of the armyrested on the Round Tops, which were farthest to thesouth, the centre on Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge,and the right on Culps Hill. The Orchard hill to thenortheast of the Round Tops was a commanding position,as it would prevent the enemy from making a flank move-ment on the left, but it was weak in other respects, as itwas commanded by Seminary Hill on the north, and bythe Warfield Ridge on the west. The right on Culps Hill was nearest the enemy, andseemed to be in the most danger. Meade sent Geary tooccupy the slopes of Culps Hill to the right of Wads-
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\CALC OF MILES GETTYSBURGTHE POSITIONS ON THE SECOND OF JULY UNION CONFEDERATE 245 246 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. worth. Sickles occupied the positions on the slopes ofLittle Round Top, but owing to some misunderstandingof orders he did not occupy the summit. Lee was also busy in gathering his forces. Early wasin the centre, facing the ridge which connects Culps Hillwith Cemetery Hill, Ewell was on the left with Johnson,who was on Benners Hill, Rodes was occupying the townat the foot of Cemetery Hill, his right touching the 3dcorps on Seminary Hill. Pender was on the left abovethe seminary, Heth on the right, along the ridge. Theother divisions not yet placed were marching towards thetown from the north. By nine oclock the army was allthere, excepting Stuarts cavalry and 6,000 men of Pick-etts and Laws divisions who were on the way. The early part of the day was wasted in preparations,and Meade, astonished at this delay, took advantage of itto strengthen his lines. Sickles, not

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