. The pictorial history of the great Civil War: its causes, origin, conduct and results; embracing full and authentic accounts of its battles by land and sea, with graphic descriptions of heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals; narratives of personal adventure; thrilling incidents; daring exploits; wonderful escapes; life in camp, field, and hospital; adventures at sea; blockade life, etc., etc.; containing carefully prepared biographies of the leading generals and naval commanders of both the North and the South / by John Laird Wilson . was thrownentirely out of position; and when,fi
. The pictorial history of the great Civil War: its causes, origin, conduct and results; embracing full and authentic accounts of its battles by land and sea, with graphic descriptions of heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals; narratives of personal adventure; thrilling incidents; daring exploits; wonderful escapes; life in camp, field, and hospital; adventures at sea; blockade life, etc., etc.; containing carefully prepared biographies of the leading generals and naval commanders of both the North and the South / by John Laird Wilson . was thrownentirely out of position; and when,finally, the whole left, and the troopawhich had been sent in support, weredriven back, and the forces of Hoodand McLaws came rushing through thegap thus created, his right was fearfullyexposed, his own coolness and intrepid-ity alone saving it from complete de-struction. Hancock—who was now incommand of Sickles corjis, as well ashis own—ever watchful, and seeing theexposed condition of Humphreys right,sent to its support two regiments, theFifteenth Massachusetts and the Eighty-Second New York from Gibbons di-vision; and, to protect him on theleft, he pushed forward Willards bri-gade, of Hays division. At the sametime that the triumphant Confederates,having pierced Sickles line, were fall-ing heavily on the left, Hill, abandon-ing his passive attitude, came downlike a thunderbolt on the right. Hum-phrey was thus caught between twofires. I was attacked, he says, onmy flanks, as well as on my front. Inever have been under a hotter artil-. i [p ^s^. HUMPHREY SEVERELY ATTACKED. 517 lery and musketry fire combined. Imay have been under a hotter musketryfire. For a moment, I thought theday was lost. I did not order mytroops to fall back rapidly because, sofar as I could see, the crest in my rear^vas vacant, and I knew that whentroops got to moving rapidly, it wasexceedingly difficult to stop them justwhen you wanted to stop them. Atthat moment, I received an order tofall back to th
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