Da karfe 11:30 na safe, filin daga ya yi shiru na wani dan lokaci.A bangaren Confederate, Henry Heth ya fuskanci yanayi mai ban kunya.Ya kasance ƙarƙashin umarni daga Janar Lee don kauce wa haɗin kai gaba ɗaya har sai da cikakken Sojojin Arewacin Virginia sun mayar da hankali a yankin.Amma balaguron da ya yi zuwa Gettysburg, da alama don nemo takalma, ya kasance da gaske bincike ne a cikin karfi wanda cikakken rukunin sojoji suka gudanar.Wannan hakika ya fara haɗin gwiwa gabaɗaya kuma Heth yana kan ɓangaren rashin nasara ya zuwa yanzu.Da karfe 12:30 na dare, ragowar brigadensa biyu, karkashin Brig.Janar J. Johnston Pettigrew da Col. John M. Brockenbrough, sun isa wurin, kamar yadda sashen (birged hudu) na Maj. Gen. Dorsey Pender, shi ma na Hill's Corps ya samu.Da yawa daga cikin sojojin Confederate suna kan hanya, duk da haka.Rukunoni biyu na Rundunar Sojoji na Biyu, wanda Laftanar Janar Richard S. Ewell ya ba da umarni, sun tunkari Gettysburg daga arewa, daga garuruwan Carlisle da York.Brigades biyar na Manjo Janar Robert E. Rodes sun bi hanyar Carlisle amma sun bar ta kafin su isa garin don ci gaba da gangaren katako na Oak Ridge, inda za su iya haɗuwa da gefen hagu na Hill's Corps.Brigades hudu karkashin Manjo Janar Jubal A. Early sun tunkari titin Harrisburg.Sojojin dawakai na hadin gwiwa a arewacin garin sun gano motsin duka.Ragowar Ewell (Maj. Gen. Edward "Allegheny" Johnson) bai isa ba sai da rana.^[19]A gefen ƙungiyar, Doubleday ya sake tsara layinsa yayin da ƙarin rukunin I Corps suka isa.Na farko a hannun shi ne Corps Artillery karkashin Col. Charles S. Wainwright, sai kuma brigades biyu daga sashin Doubleday, wanda Brig.Janar Thomas A. Rowley, wanda Doubleday ya sanya a kowane ƙarshen layinsa.XI Corps sun zo daga kudu kafin tsakar rana, suna hawan Taneytown da Emmitsburg Roads.Manjo Janar Oliver O. Howard yana leken asirin yankin daga rufin kantin Fahnestock Brothers na bushe-bushe a cikin gari da misalin karfe 11:30 ^[20] sai ya ji labarin an kashe Reynolds kuma yanzu shi ne ke jagorantar kowa. Sojojin kungiyar a filin wasa.Ya tuna cewa: "Zuciyata ta yi nauyi, kuma lamarin ya yi tsanani, amma ban yi kasa a gwiwa ba, Allah Ya taimake mu, za mu tsaya a nan har sai Sojoji su zo. Na dauki kwamandan filin."^[21]Nan da nan Howard ya aika da manzanni don kiran ƙarfafawa daga III Corps (Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles) da XII Corps (Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum).Rukunin Howard na XI Corps na farko da ya isa, ƙarƙashin Maj. Janar Carl Schurz, an tura shi zuwa arewa don ɗaukar matsayi a kan Oak Ridge da haɗi tare da haƙƙin I Corps.(Brig. Gen. Alexander Schimmelfennig ne ya ba da umarnin rukunin na ɗan lokaci yayin da Schurz ya maye gurbin Howard a matsayin kwamandan XI Corps.) Sashen Brig.An sanya Janar Francis C. Barlow a kan hakkin Schurz don tallafa masa.Kashi na uku zai iso, karkashin Brig.Janar Adolph von Steinwehr, an sanya shi a Dutsen Cemetery tare da batura biyu na bindigogi don rike tudun a matsayin wurin taro idan sojojin Tarayyar ba za su iya rike matsayinsu ba;wannan wuri a kan tudun ya yi daidai da umarnin da Reynolds ya aika tun da farko zuwa Howard kafin a kashe shi.^[22]Duk da haka, Rodes ya doke Schurz zuwa Oak Hill, don haka an tilasta ƙungiyar XI Corps ta dauki matsayi a cikin fili a arewacin garin, kasa da kuma gabashin Oak Hill.^[23] Sun haɗu da sashin ajiyar I Corps na Brig.Janar John C. Robinson, wanda Doubleday ya aika brigades guda biyu lokacin da ya ji labarin zuwan Ewell.^[24] Rundunar tsaron Howard ba ta da ƙarfi musamman a arewa.^[25] Ba da daɗewa ba ya fi yawa (Xi Corps, har yanzu yana fama da sakamakon shan kashinsu a yakin Chancellorsville, yana da tasiri 8,700 kawai), kuma filin da mutanensa suka mamaye a arewa ba a zaba su ba don tsaro.Ya ba da bege cewa ƙarfafawa daga Slocum's XII Corps za su isa Baltimore Pike a cikin lokaci don yin bambanci.^[26]