rg but he was not sure (Shaara, 74)." He had not yet heard anything!
             from General Stuart. Lee had heard that the Union might be going into Gettysburg from what Longstreet's spy has said. Lee arrived in the middle of the afternoon and ordered General Richard Ewell to renew the attack on the high ground before nightfall. "Ewell chose not to follow the order; his men needed a rest (Ward, 216)." Day 2: July 2,1863 Fighting at night was not respectful for the two sides, but the armies still gathered through out the night. In the morning, 65,000 Confederates faced 85,000 Union troops. The Union lined Cemetery Hill on the right and Big and Little Round Tops at the left. Lee wanted the heights taken (Ward, 216)." Ewell's troops were sent to capture Culp's Hill; while General James Longstreet went after the Round tops (Rhoads, 673)." The Union forces assigned to hold off Longstreet was the 3rd Corps, under General Daniel Sickles, a turbulent ex-Tammany politician best know for having shot his wife before the war. Sickles disobey orders by shifting his !
             troops from the lower positions on Cemetery Ridge onto the Peach Orchard leaving the Round top troops and the left flank open and undefended. "Before General Meade could ordered him back, Longstreet started his attack around four o' clock in the afternoon (Ward, 218)." The 15th Alabama Confederate corps scrambled up Big Round Top to come in on top of the Union forces on Little Round top. "From Big Round Top's summit, Colonel William C. Oates saw his chance to try to have guns brought up to the summit of Little Round top, where the Federal lines could be blown apart (Ward, 218)." Meade not sure what was going on at the Round Tops, he sent General Governor K. Warren, the Union's chief engineer, and a young lieutenant of engineers, Washington Roebling, to the top of Little Round top. Only a handful of signalmen held the ...