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to abandon one gun to the enemy. In the evening the Federal line 
had fallen back to the Cemetery Hill and heights east of Gettysburg, 
while on the opposite slopes the Confederate army was gathered ready 
to renew the fight on the following morning. 
Next day Lee determined to assail both flanks of the Federals, and 
also to demonstrate against them at the centre to prevent either wing 
from being reinforced. 
The attacks on the extremities were intended to have fallen simul¬ 
taneously, but attempts to direct columns several miles apart so as to 
converge on one point are extremely difficult to carry out successfully, 
and in this case Lee*s arrangements miscarried, the action on the Con¬ 
federate right being over ere that on their left had commenced. Long- 
street on the Confederate right commenced the battle by assaulting the 
Federal line near the Peach Orchard where their 3rd Corps was posted. 
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (SECOND DAY).—2nd July , 1863. 
Its formation was extremely faulty, 1 for, while part held the line of the 
road to Gettysburg, the remainder was doubled back along the road 
from Peach Orchard, easterly to the ridge, almost at right angles with 
it. It is round this angle that the interest to artillerymen of the 
second day's fighting is centred, for truly every episode of an artillery 
combat is there to be founds and while the power of their arm in con¬ 
centration is well illustrated, the splendid devotion with which its 
destructive force was met and struggled against on the part of the 
1 It should be noted, however, that General Hunt has contended that this was the best way to 
occupy the ground. 
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