. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . anister for about twentyhis guns. These two batteries gave me twelve minutes, and the affair was over,guns, and to obtain more I then charged three When the Eleventh Corps was routed, thesquadrons of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania situation was this : The nearest infantry to mecavalry on the stragglers of the Eleventh Corps, was the right of the Twelfth Corps, over a mileto clear the ground, and with the assistance of off, and engaged by the forces under Generalthe rest of the regiment succeeded in placing Lee, who was trying to prevent them f
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . anister for about twentyhis guns. These two batteries gave me twelve minutes, and the affair was over,guns, and to obtain more I then charged three When the Eleventh Corps was routed, thesquadrons of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania situation was this : The nearest infantry to mecavalry on the stragglers of the Eleventh Corps, was the right of the Twelfth Corps, over a mileto clear the ground, and with the assistance of off, and engaged by the forces under Generalthe rest of the regiment succeeded in placing Lee, who was trying to prevent them fromten more piecesof artillery in line. The line was impeding the movements of General Jackson,then ready for Stonewall Jacksons onset. It The two divisions of the Third Corps werewas dusk when his men swarmed out of the nearly a mile to the west at the Furnace. HadIs for a quarter of a mile in our front (our Jackson captured the position at Hazel Grove,rear ten minutes before). They came on in line, these two divisions would have been cut off from. RESCUING THE WOUNDED ON SUNDAY FROM THE BURNING WOODS Major Clifford Thomson, aide-de-camp on Gen-eral Pleasontons staff, in a recent letter gives thefollowing account of the fight at Hazel Grove: < Gen-eral Pleasonton rode from gun to gun, directing thegunners to aim low, not to get excited, to make everyshot tell; the staff-officers, catching their cue from him,did the same, and while at fir^t there had been consider-able excitement and apprehension among us, ii nunquieted down,and every thought and action wasdirectedto getting the be ervii e onf of those guns that theylie of rendering. Recovering from the dis-order into which Keenans charge had thrown them,lemy could I- seen forming line of battle in thein our front. They were scarcelyhundred yards distant ; yel such wa i the gloomthat they could no) be clearly distinguished. General■ ; to give the ordei to fire, when a ■•• at one of the guns said :General, arent those
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