It had, by 6 P.M., been beaten to a pulp by Confederate attacks. General Sickles had been taken from the field with a wound that would cost him a leg. His men were in full retreat to Seminary Ridge. There was one moment when a group of Confederates appeared on the ridge, and—for once—had no opposition, but General Winfield Scott Hancock, who was the most ubiquitous person at Gettysburg, sent a regiment of Minnesota men in a desperate endeavor. The regiment lost seventy-five percent of its men, but they gained Hancock the five or ten minutes he needed to plug the gap.