. From Manassas to Appomattox : memoirs of the Civil War in America . This he called backto vacant ground on Hoods left. Two detachments, oneunder Colonel Grigsby, of Virginia, the other underColonel Stafford, of Louisiana, remained on the woodedground off from the left of Jacksons position. One ofthe regiments of Earlys brigade was left with the cav-alry. Stuart retired to position corresponding to the lineof Jacksons broken front. The brigade under G. joined on Hoods right, and the brigades underJ. G. Walker coming up took place on Hoods left,Walker leaving two regiments to fill a
. From Manassas to Appomattox : memoirs of the Civil War in America . This he called backto vacant ground on Hoods left. Two detachments, oneunder Colonel Grigsby, of Virginia, the other underColonel Stafford, of Louisiana, remained on the woodedground off from the left of Jacksons position. One ofthe regiments of Earlys brigade was left with the cav-alry. Stuart retired to position corresponding to the lineof Jacksons broken front. The brigade under G. joined on Hoods right, and the brigades underJ. G. Walker coming up took place on Hoods left,Walker leaving two regiments to fill a vacant place be-tween Andersons brigade and Hoods right. Walker,Hood, and D. H. Hill attacked against the Twelfth Corps;worn by its fight against Jackson, it was driven backas far as the post-and-rail fence in the east open, wherethey were checked. They were outside of the line, theirleft in the air and exposed to the fire of a thirty-gunbattery posted at long range on the Hagerstown road byGeneral Doubleday. Their left was withdrawn, and the BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG. BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG, OR ANTIETAM. 243 line rectified, when Greenes brigade of the Twelfth re-sumed position in the northeast angle of the wood, whichit held until Sedgwicks division came in bold march. In these fights offensive and defensive the artillery bat-talions under Lieutenant-Colonel S. D. Lee and MajorFrobel were in active combat, the former from the firstshot made before daylight. They had been severelyworked, and were nearly exhausted of ammunition. TheWashington Artillery was called on for a battery to as-sist them, and some of the guns of that battalion weresent for ammunition. Millers battery of four Napoleonguns came. As Jackson withdrew. General Hookers corps retiredto a point on the Hagerstown road about three-quartersof a mile north of the battle-ground, where GeneralDoubleday established his thirty-gun battery. Jacksonsand Hookers men had fought to exhaustion, and thebattle of the Twelfth Corps, t
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