. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ed,bluff-like hill commanding the approach to the ford from the east. $ Here Iposted a battalion of skirmishers. While these dispositions, after a careful reconnoissance of the ground onboth sides of the Antietam, were being made, the booming of artillery, atsome distance on my left, warned us that the battle had begun. As themorning wore on the firing grew heavier and heavier, until Elk Mountain, tothe eastward, gave back an incessant echo. About 9 oclock an order was brought by
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ed,bluff-like hill commanding the approach to the ford from the east. $ Here Iposted a battalion of skirmishers. While these dispositions, after a careful reconnoissance of the ground onboth sides of the Antietam, were being made, the booming of artillery, atsome distance on my left, warned us that the battle had begun. As themorning wore on the firing grew heavier and heavier, until Elk Mountain, tothe eastward, gave back an incessant echo. About 9 oclock an order was brought by a staff-officer of General Lee,directing me to hurry to the left to reenforce Jackson, who was being hardpressed. Hastily recalling my skirmishers, I hurried forward, left in front,along the rear of the whole Confederate liue of battle. As I passed what is nowknown as Cemetery Hill, I saw General Lee standing erect and calm, with afield-glass to his eye, his fine form sharply outlined against the sky, and I 3> The ford by which Eodman crossed after Walkers forces were withdrawn.— Editors. SHARPSBURG. 677. .w^ wMjf/ t^V1 >H! TO !: !4;0 1 \,v;v :(,• * I m BURNSIDE S BRIDGE —II. This picture, after a photograph taken in 1885, is a viewof the Union position from the hill where Confederateartillery was planted to enfilade the bridge. From apoiutbelow, the 2d Maryland and the 6th New Hampshirecharged up the road, but they were swept by such a mur- derous fire that only a few reached the bridge andsought shelter behind the stone-wall above. Subse-quently, the bridge was carried by the 51st Pennsylvaniaand the 51st New York, charging from the pines on thehill-side (seep. G52).—Editors. thought I had never seen a nobler figure. He seemed quite unconscious thatthe enemys shells were exploding around and beyond him. To those who have not been witnesses of a great battle like this, wheremore than a hundred thousand men, armed with all the appliances of modernscience and skill
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