You Will Soon See Them Tumbling Back John Paul Strain Major General Winfield Scott Hancock

Major General Winfield Scott Hancock

along with Colonel Patrick Kelly's famed Irish Brigade

The battle-weary men in blue obediently fixed bayonets

A courier from General Meade soon arrived directing Hancock to send reinforcements to General Sickles embattled Divisions who were being hit hard by the advancing forces of General James Longstreet

and Colonel Cross

You Will Soon See Them Tumbling Back John Paul Strain Major General Winfield Scott HancockJuly 2, 1863 has begun as a relatively quiet day. It was almost as if the two armies were stunned and recovering from the previous day's battle. However, what was to come would make yesterday's fighting seem like a skirmish. Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, commanding the much vaunted 2nd Corps of the Army of the Potomac had spent much of the day riding back and forth between army headquarters and his three division commanders, anticipating the