[Chancellorsville and Gettysburg by Abner Doubleday]@TWC D-Link bookChancellorsville and Gettysburg CHAPTER IV 22/45
He accordingly directed the Eleventh Corps to change front to meet Ewell.
As it did so, Devin's cavalry brigade fell back and took up a position to the right and rear of this line just south of the railroad bridge. The concentration of Rodes' and Early's divisions--the one from Carlisle and the other from York--took place with great exactness; both arriving in sight of Gettysburg at the same time.
The other division, that of Johnson, took a longer route from Carlisle by way of Greenwood, to escort the trains, and did not reach the battle- field until sunset.
Anderson's division of Hill's corps was also back at the pass in the mountains on the Chambersburg road.
It had halted to allow Johnson to pass, and then followed him to Gettysburg, reaching there about dusk. The first indication I had that Ewell had arrived, and was taking part in the battle, came from a battery posted on an eminence called Oak Hill, almost directly in the prolongation of my line, and about a mile north of Colonel Stone's position.
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