This was accomplished with the tremendous loss of fifty per cent.

of his command in killed and wounded.

His return was aided by the artillery on Little Round Top, and by the advance of part of the Sixth Corps.

When the troops were all gone, Winslow's battery still held the field for a time, and withdrew by piece.
[* General Ayres, whose service in the war commenced with the first Bull Run and ended at Appomattox, may almost be called an impersonation of the Army of the Potomac, as he took part in nearly all its battles and minor engagements.] The enemy, Wofford's, Kershaw's, and Anderson's brigades, now swarmed in the front of our main line between the wheat-field and Little Round Top.

General S.Wiley Crawford, who commanded a division composed of two brigades of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, was ordered to drive them farther back.