. The century illustrated monthly magazine . d it, against theablest and fiercest of McClellans lieutenants,history has told. How successfully he alwaysmet every general who opposed him, albeitthe ablest, all the world seems to know — ex-cept General Longstreet. During all this time Longstreet, stripped ofhis troops, sent to the help of Jackson, heldthe right almost alone with his eye on thecenter. He was now called to active work, forthere were no unfought troops in Lees armyat Sharpsburg. Every soldier tasted battlethat day. General Burnside, with his corps of 14,000men, had been lying all d
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . d it, against theablest and fiercest of McClellans lieutenants,history has told. How successfully he alwaysmet every general who opposed him, albeitthe ablest, all the world seems to know — ex-cept General Longstreet. During all this time Longstreet, stripped ofhis troops, sent to the help of Jackson, heldthe right almost alone with his eye on thecenter. He was now called to active work, forthere were no unfought troops in Lees armyat Sharpsburg. Every soldier tasted battlethat day. General Burnside, with his corps of 14,000men, had been lying all day beyond the bridgewhich now bears his name. Ordered to crossat eight oclock, he managed to get over atone,and by three was ready to advance. He movedagainst the hill which D. R. Jones held withhis little division of 2500 men. Longstreet waswatching this advance. Jackson was atGeneral Lees headquarters on a knoll in rearof Sharpsburg. A. P. Hill was coming, but STONEWALL JACKSON JN MARY, 4flm, Zr--^ -7,~ v S .:^,y „ t- { H-t - W>. had not arrived,and it was appar-ent that Burnsidemust be stayed,if at all, with artil-lery. One of thesections, trans-ferred to the rightfrom Jackson atthe request ofGeneral Lee, wasof the Rock-bridge Artillery,and as it gallopedby, the youngestson of the Gen-eral-in-Chief,Robert E. Lee,Jr., a private atthe guns, blackwith the grimeand powder of along days fight,stopped a mo-ment to salutehis father andthen rushed afterhis gun. Whereelse in this warwas the son of a commanding general a private in the ranks ? of heavy guns. The day was done. Again Going to put this section in place, I saw A. P. Hill, as at Manassas, Harpers Ferryr Burnsides heavy line move up the hill and the and elsewhere, had struck with the right hand earth seemed to tremble beneath their tread, of Mars. No wonder that both Lee and Jack-
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