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McLaws  had  four  strong  infantry  brigades^  ad-
joining Hood  on  the  left  of  the  latter;  these  forces
were  aligned  at  first  on  the  ridge,  almost  parallel  with
the  Emmitsbtirg  road,  but  almost  as  soon  as  the
engagement  began  some  of  his  forces  crossed  that
road,  forming  a  semicircle  roundabout  the  angle  in
which  the  Peach  Orchard  was  located,  so  that  his
men  in  part  assailed  that  point  from  the  west  and  in
part  from  the  south;  when  the  angle  was  broken  the
Union  forces  were  enfiladed  from  two  directions,  the
entire  mass  for  a  time,  including  both  Union  and  Con-
federate troops,  were  merged  together  in  a  seething
caldron  of  battle  which  raged  and  thundered  in  the
woods  and  fields  and  among  the  rocks,  and  which
did  not  subside  until  at  last,  in  the  darkening  night,
Longstreet  concluded  that  it  was  not  then  possible
to  penetrate  the  original  line  of  battle  of  the  Union
forces  reaching  from  Little  Round  Top  to  Cemetery
Hill.
R.  H.  Anderson's  division  of  Hill's  corps  made  con-
nection with  McLaws's  left,  and  extended  its  ranks
north  along  the  ridge,  with  instructions  to  continue
the  fight  in  that  direction  as  opportunity  might  pre-
sent itself,  as  we  shall  hereafter  show.
It  is  time  to  take  a  glance  at  the  line  which  had
been  formed  by  Sickles  to  face  the  troops  thus  ar-
rayed in  his  front.     He  had  found  it  impossible  to


'McLaws's  division  —  Kershaw:  South  Carolina,  Second,  Third,
Seventh,  Eighth,  Fifteenth  regiments,  and  Third  Battalion.  Semmes:
Tenth,  Fiftieth,  Fifty -first,  and  Fifty -third  Georgia.  Wofford:
Georgia,  Sixteenth,  Eighteenth,  Twenty-fourth;  Cobb's  Legion,
Phillips's  Legion.  Barksdale:  Mississippi,  Thirteenth,  Seventeenth,
Eighteenth,  and  Twenty-first.
