even so, and partly because of sickles's unexpected location, longstreet's assault did not proceed according to lee's plan. instead of wheeling left to join a simultaneous two-division push on either side of the emmitsburg road, hood's division attacked in a more easterly direction than intended, and mclaws's and anderson's divisions deployed brigade by brigade, in an "en echelon" style of attack, also heading more to the east than the intended northeast.