Active
Active adjective - Being in effective operation.
Sitting
Sitting adjective - (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks.
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While the movie does seem to make it the case that Meade simply isn't there, in reality, he was present on the field for the entire second day of battle and actually far more active in moving around near the front-lines of battle than Lee, who spent the day sitting outside A.P.
Source: Film / Gettysburg - Most games in the Tales Series give you more team members than can fit in an active party, and while the games tend to be fairly balanced on the whole, there are definitely a few characters who end up sitting on the back bench in a lot of playthroughs.
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