The peasant could not break the bundle of fagots, but he could break one at a time until all were gone.
Lee's concave form of battle was a great disadvantage, for it took him three times as long as it did us to communicate with different parts of his line, and concentrate troops.

His couriers who carried orders and the reinforcements he sent moved on the circumference and ours on the chord of the arc.
The two armies were about a mile apart.

The Confederates--Longstreet and Hill--occupied Seminary Ridge, which runs parallel to Cemetery Ridge, upon which our forces were posted.

Ewell's corps, on the rebel left, held the town, Hill the centre, and Longstreet the right.
Lee could easily have manoeuvred Meade out of his strong position on the heights, and should have done so.

When he determined to attack, he should have commenced at daybreak, for all his force was up except Pickett's division; while two corps of the Union army, the Fifth and Sixth, were still far away, and two brigades of the Third Corps were also absent.
The latter were marching on the Emmetsburg road, and as that was controlled by the enemy, Sickles felt anxious for the safety of his men and trains, and requested that the cavalry be sent to escort them in.