lee ordered lt. gen. ewell to launch a demonstration, or minor diversionary attack, on the union right flank. he started the attack at 4 p.m. with an artillery bombardment from benner's hill, which caused little damage to the union lines, but the counterbattery fire returned upon the lower hill was deadly. ewell's best artillery officer, 19-year-old joseph w. latimer, the "boy major", was mortally wounded, eventually dying a month later. ewell did not launch a conventional infantry attack until after 7 p.m., after anderson's assault on cemetery ridge had crested. at around 8 p.m., two brigades of jubal early's division reached the union artillery of east cemetery hill near the baltimore pike, but union reinforcements drove them from the hill.