. Young folk's history of the war for the union . dbe done but hard fighting, ordered an attack to be made along the whole line at fiveoclock in the morn-ing; but Lee wasbefore him, and at-tacked Sedgwickabout fifteen min-utes earlier. Butthis was meant onlyfor a feint, theConfederate generalmeaning to makethe real attack onGrants left. Long-street, however, didnot come up in time,and so it happenedthat Hancock at-tacked Hill in themorning, and drovehim back a mile anda half, nearly toLees situation wasa critical one for theConfederates. Leedashed among the fugitives and calle
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . dbe done but hard fighting, ordered an attack to be made along the whole line at fiveoclock in the morn-ing; but Lee wasbefore him, and at-tacked Sedgwickabout fifteen min-utes earlier. Butthis was meant onlyfor a feint, theConfederate generalmeaning to makethe real attack onGrants left. Long-street, however, didnot come up in time,and so it happenedthat Hancock at-tacked Hill in themorning, and drovehim back a mile anda half, nearly toLees situation wasa critical one for theConfederates. Leedashed among the fugitives and called on the men to rally. Atthis time Longstreet came up, and seeing how things stood,pushed forward to win back the lost ground. The soldiers, see-ing that General Lee meant to advance with them, earnestlybegged him to go to the rear, where his life would be less ex-posed, and promised that they would soon right things. Yield-ing to their fears, Lee withdrew, and Longstreets men chargedwith such a will that they carried everything before them. The. Battle of the Wilderness. 1864.] BATTLE OB THE WILDERNESS. 437 Union line was forced back, Waclsworth was killed, and Han-cock lost nearly all he had gained. While the Confederates were pushing on, Longstreet wentwith his staff to the front to see how the battle was going. Ashe rode out of the woods he suddenly came upon a body of hisown men, Avho, supposing the group to be Union cavalry, firedupon them, just as Stonewall Jackson had been fired on underlike circumstances in another part of the same shouted to them in vain to cease firing, and the nextmoment General Jenkins fell dead from his saddle and Long-street himself received a ball through the neck and General was carried to the rear, it was feared mortallywounded, and Lee himself took charge of that part of the made another attack in the afternoon on Hancock, who hadstrengthened his front with a breastwork of trees. The under-brush in
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