I've attached an except below taken from the report of the brigade commander, Colonel Richard Coulter, describing his brigades position and alignment during the action (OR Series 1, Volume XLVI, Part 1, pages 896 - 897). The Consolidated 56 / 88 Pennsylvania Regiment was positioned on the right end of the first line of Coulter's Brigade. Coulter's Brigade was centered between the two other brigades of Crawford's Division (Kellogg and Baxter). Using the map shown above you can see they were about as far from the main strength of the Confederates as it was possible to get.
"April 1, marched from above point, being near junction White Oak road and Dinwiddie Court-House, reaching Gravelly Run Church 3 p. m., where line was formed - division in center, brigade in two lines, in rear and center of First and Second Brigades, order commencing on right: First line - Fifty-sixth and Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania (consolidated), Major Laycock; strength, 14 officers and 309 men; Ninety-fourth New York, Major Fish; strength, 9 officers and 214 men. Second line - One hundred and forty-seventh New York, Captain McKinley; strength, 12 officers and 315 men; Ninety-fifth New York, Captain Knight; strength, 6 officers and 88 men; One hundred and twenty-first and One hundred and forty-second Pennsylvania (consolidated), Major Funk; strength, 15 officers and 195 men. Total, 56 officers and 1,011 men. At 3.30 p. m. advanced, crossing White Oak road, when direction was changed to left and parallel to road, left of division resting on road, Second Division being on left and south of road; soon after enemy was engaged."