Abstract

Before Meade left the Leister house to confer with Sickles, he ordered General Sykes to bring his Fifth Corps from the right flank to the left. After conferring with Sickles, Meade directed General Warren to make sure Little Round Top was occupied. Sickles’s Third Corps was under attack by two divisions of General James Longstreets’s Confederate corps. Sykes brought his Fifth Corps to the left flank as rapidly as possible. General Warren directed two brigades of the Fifth Corps to positions on Little Round Top. Meade met General Sykes along the Wheatfield Road and instructed him to direct General James Barnes’s division into a prominent Wheatfield to bolster the center of Sickles’s imperiled lines.

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