Janar Lee ya kuma fahimci yuwuwar kariyar ga rundunar sojojin idan sun rike babban filin Cemetery Hill.Ya aika da umarni ga Ewell cewa "ya ɗauki tudun da abokan gaba suka mamaye, idan ya ga cewa yana iya aiki, amma don guje wa haɗuwa gabaɗaya har sai zuwan sauran sassan sojojin."Dangane da wannan hankali, kuma mai yuwuwa ya saba wa, oda, Ewell ya zaɓi kada ya yi ƙoƙarin kai harin.^[53] Ɗaya daga cikin dalili da aka bayyana shi ne gajiyawar yaƙi da mutanensa suka yi a cikin yammacin yamma, ko da yake "Allegheny" Johnson's division na Ewell's Corps ya kasance cikin sa'a guda da isa filin daga.Wani kuma shi ne wahalar kai hari kan tsaunin ta ƴan ƴan ƴan ƴan titin Gettysburg nan da nan zuwa arewa.Ewell ya nemi taimako daga AP Hill, amma wannan janar din ya ji cewa gawarwakinsa sun yi yawa daga yakin ranar kuma Janar Lee bai so ya kawo sashin Maj. Gen. Richard H. Anderson daga ajiyar.Ewell ya yi la'akari da ɗaukar Culp's Hill, wanda zai sanya matsayin ƙungiyar a kan Dutsen Cemetery ba zai yuwu ba.Duk da haka, Jubal Early ya yi adawa da ra'ayin lokacin da aka ruwaito cewa sojojin Union (wataƙila Slocum's XII Corps) suna gabatowa a kan York Pike, kuma ya aika brigades na John B. Gordon da Brig.Janar William "Extra Billy" Smith don toshe wannan barazanar da ake gani;Tun da wuri aka bukaci jiran sashin Johnson ya dauki tudun.Bayan sashen Johnson ya isa ta Chambersburg Pike, ya zagaya zuwa gabashin garin don shirye-shiryen daukar tudu, amma wata karamar jam'iyyar leken asiri da aka aika a gaba ta ci karo da layin 7th Indiana Infantry, wanda ya bude wuta ya kama wani jami'in Confederate soja.Sauran Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin sun gudu kuma ƙoƙarin kama Culp's Hill a ranar 1 ga Yuli ya ƙare.^[54]