His men, fighting for every inch of ground about the Peach Orchard, were slowly driven back.
Sickles himself fell, a leg shattered, and walked on one leg for more than fifty years afterwards.

Hood, his immediate opponent, also fell, losing an arm then and a leg later at Chickamauga, but Longstreet still pushed the attack, and the Northern generals who had stood around Sickles resisted with the stubbornness of men who meant to succeed or die.
Early in the battle Harry had seen General Lee walk forward to a point in the center of his line and sit down on a smooth stump.

There he sat a long time, apparently impassive.

Harry sometimes took his eyes away from the combat for the Peach Orchard and Little Round Top to watch his commander-in-chief.

But the general never showed emotion.