. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . marched to his support. The corps consisted of two divisions,Williamss and Greenes. It contained a number of new and undrilled regi-ments, and in hastening to the field in columns of battalions in mass, properintervals for deployment had not been preserved, and time was necessarily lostbefore the troops could be put in line. General Man sfield fell mortally woundedbefore the deployment was complete, and the command devolved on GeneralWilliams.
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . marched to his support. The corps consisted of two divisions,Williamss and Greenes. It contained a number of new and undrilled regi-ments, and in hastening to the field in columns of battalions in mass, properintervals for deployment had not been preserved, and time was necessarily lostbefore the troops could be put in line. General Man sfield fell mortally woundedbefore the deployment was complete, and the command devolved on GeneralWilliams. Williams had only time to take the most general directions fromHooker, when the latter also was wounded. | The Twelfth Corps attack iOf the early morning fight in the corn-field, heavy force ol the enemy had taken possession of a eneral Hooker s-,vs in hisrenort- corn-field (I have since learned about a thirty-acre field), eneral riookei s,ays in his report. in my jmlne(lirtte (ront and fro,n the ray8 faUing We had not proceeded far before I discovered that a on their bayonets projectiuK above the corn could see 640 THE BATTLE OF riMT,„,K 1 that the field was filled with the enemy, with arms intheir hands, standing apparently at support arms. In-structions were immediately given for the assemblageof all of my spare 1 latteries near at hand, of which I thinkthere were live or ^ spring into battery on the lightof this field, and to open with canister at once. In thetime I am writing every stalk of corn in the northernand greater part of the field was cut as closely as couldhave been done with a knife, and the slain lay in rowsprecisely as they had stood in their ranks a few mo-ments before. It was never my fortune to witness a more Woody,dismal battle-field. Those that escaped fled in the op-posite direction from our advance, and sought refugebehind the trees, stone ledgesnoarly on a lineWith the Diiuker Char. h. a- there was no resisting
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