slocum had him there because as far as slocum was concerned, williams was in charge of the corps. williams receives information from his unit commanders here, and he reports it to slocum. i reported the condition of affairs, and slocum's order was tried the confederates out of daylight, an order i thought was more easily made the next acute. -- made then executed. by the morning of july 3, now we get to it. as i said, the confederate line now stretches from jones brigade, which had fallen back to what is now confederate avenue on the east side of the hill. nichols men were behind us rock shelves. stuart's brigade held the trenches on the reverse side of the earth works. ee's plans for july 3, at least on paper, were essentially the same as july 2. the general plan was unchanged. long street was ordered to attack the next morning. position,t was out of we won't delve into that too much. he was starting his own flank maneuver. ewell hadn july 3, doubled the size of the brigade. for richardy , the union line had also doubled in size. lee's execution of his plan could not be farther t