Forty guns together opened upon the charging column, and Hancock at the Union center, seeing and understanding the danger, was heaping up men and cannon to meet it.
The shells began to crash into the ranks of the Virginians and the ten thousand on their flanks.

Men fell in hundreds and now the batteries on Little Round Top added to the storm of fire.

The clouds of smoke gathered again, but the wind presently scattered them and Harry, waiting in agony, saw Pickett's division marching straight ahead, never faltering.
But he groaned when he saw that there was trouble on the flanks.
The men of Pettigrew, exhausted by the great efforts they had already made in the battle, wavered and lost ground.

Another division was driven back by a heavy flank attack.

Others were lost in the vast banks of smoke that at times filled the valley.