Abstract
As the attacks against Sickles’s lines intensified, two brigades of Confederate troops were defeated attempting to seize Little Round Top. Meade ordered a division of Hancock’s Second Corps into the Wheatfield; he then ordered the divisions of United States Regulars, followed by the Pennsylvania Reserves, all from the Fifth Corps, into the Plum Run Valley to stop the Confederate attacks. Positioned north of the Wheatfield along Cemetery Ridge, Meade brought elements of the Twelfth Corps from the vulnerable right flank to enter the fighting north of the Wheatfield Road and to occupy positions along Cemetery Ridge. As darkness fell, Meade personally led elements of the First and Eleventh Corps, that had held positions on Cemetery Hill, to the center of the army along Cemetery Ridge where they stopped the last attack. By dark, all the Confederate attacks against the left and center of the army had been defeated.
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