. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . s placed on the left of Lees army. The first onset, early on the morning of the17th, told what the day would be. The im-patient Hooker, with the divisions of Meade,Doubleday, and Ricketts, struck the firstblow, and Jacksons old division caught it andstruck back again. Between such foes thebattle soon waxed hot. Step by step andmarking each step with dead, the thin Con-federate line was pushed back to the woodaround the Dunker Church. Here Lawton,.Starke (commanding in place of Jones, alreadywounded), and D. H. Hill with part of his divis-ion
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . s placed on the left of Lees army. The first onset, early on the morning of the17th, told what the day would be. The im-patient Hooker, with the divisions of Meade,Doubleday, and Ricketts, struck the firstblow, and Jacksons old division caught it andstruck back again. Between such foes thebattle soon waxed hot. Step by step andmarking each step with dead, the thin Con-federate line was pushed back to the woodaround the Dunker Church. Here Lawton,.Starke (commanding in place of Jones, alreadywounded), and D. H. Hill with part of his divis-ion, engaged Meade. And now in turn theFederals halted and fell back, and left theirdead by Dunker Church. Next Mansfieldentered the fight, and beat with resistlessmight on Jacksons people. The battle heregrew bloody. Starke was killed,Lawton wounded, and nearly all their gen-eral and field officers had fallen; the sullenConfederate line again fell baok, killing Mans-field and wounding Hooker, Crawford, and 294 STONEWALL JACKSON JN GENERAL VIEW OF THE BATTLE. (BY EDWIN FORBES, AFTER HIS SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME.) This sketch was made on the hill behind McClellans head-quarters, the house in the hollow on the left. Sumners corps isseen in line of battle in the middle-ground, and Franklins is ad-vancing in column to his support. In the left background thereis the smoke of a bursting Confederate caisson. The column of smoke is from the burning house and barn of S. Mumma, whogave the ground on which the Dunker Church stands, and afterwhom, in the Confederate reports, the church is frequently called On the right is the East wood, in which is seen thesmoke of the conflict between Mansfield and Jackson.— Editor. Hartsuff. And now D. H. Hill led in therest of his division ; Hood also took part, tothe right and left, front and rear of DunkerChurch. The Federal line was driven back,while artillery added its din to the incessantrattle of musketry. Then old ma
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