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who had been sent forward to examine the position, reported that Gettysburg was the place at which to receive the Confederate attack, and Meade hurried his whole force to that point. The action on the second day, July 2, began about noon with an attempt made by Lee to seize Round Top, a rocky hill from which the Union position could be enfiladed. When this day’s fighting closed Lee was convinced that he had greatly the advantage, and he resolved to pre it the next day. On the morning of July 3 an attempt was made upon the extreme Union right, but repelled. The main attack on the center was preluded by a cannonade from 150 guns, which was replied to by 80. little injury being inflicted by either side. About noon the Union fire was slackened in order to cool the guns, and Lee, thinking that the batteries were silenced, launched a eolumn of 15,000 or 18,000 against the Union lines. Some of this column actually surmounted the low works, and a brief hand-to-hand fight ensued. But the column was practically annihilated, only a smali portion escaping death or capture. The forces on each side were probably about 80,000, though all were not really engaged. No official report of the Confederate lo was ever published; the best estimates - put it at about 18,000 killed and wounded, and 13,600 mi ing, most of them prisoners. The Union lo was 23,187. Pop. borough of Gettysburg (1910)) 4,030.