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wounded and dying only the murmur--
a morning memory---of the breeze through
the foliage. only the low rattle of prepa-
ration for what was to come, embroidered
this blank stiffness. Then as the smoke
beyond the village was lightly borne to
the eastward, the woods on the left were
seen filled with dark masses of infantry,
three columns deep, who advanced at a
quickstep. Magnificent! Such charge
by such force-full $4,000 men, under
Hill and Longstreet-evcn though it
threatened to pierce and annihilate the
Sd corps, against whichit was directed,
drew forth cries of admiration from all
who beheld it. Sickles and his splendid
command withstood the shock with de-
termination that checked, but could not
fully restrain it. Back, inch by inch,
fighting, falling, dying, cheering, the men
retired. '' 'l'' %" i'
The rebels came on more furiously, halt
ing at intervals, pouring volleys that
struck our men down in scores. Sicklcs,
fighting desperately, was struck in the leg
and fell. The Second corps came to the
aid Of his decimatcd column, and then
the battle grew fearful. Standing firmly
up against the storm, our troops, though
still outnumbered, gave back shot for shot
and volley for volley, and almost deuth
for death, but the enemy was not restrain
ed. Down he came upon our left with a
momentum that nothing could check Ri
fled guns that lay before our infantry were
in, danger of capture. Hancock was
wounded in the thigh, Gen, Gibbon in the
shoulder. The Fifth corps, as the First
and Second wavered anew, went into the
breach with such shouts and such volleys
as made the rebel column tremble at last
Up from the valley behind, another bat
terry, came rolling to the heights and flung
its contents in an instant down in the
midst of the enemy's ranks. Crash
crash with discharges deafehing, terri
bic, the musketry firing went on the en-
emy, reforming after each discharge with
wonderous celerity and frmness, still
pressed up the declivity. What hideous
carnage filed the minutes between the ap-
pearancc of the Fifth corps and the ad-
vance, to the support Of the rebel columns
Of still another column from the right,
I cannot bear to tell. Men fell as the
leaves fall in autumn before those horrible
discharges. Faltering for an instant the
rebel columns seemed about to recede be-
fore the tempest. But their officers, who
could be seen through the smoke Of con-
flict galloping and swinging their swords
along the lines, rallied them anew, and
the next instant the whole line sprung
forward as if to break through our own
by mere weight of numbers. A division
from the Twelfth corps on the extreme
right reached the scene at this instant, at
the same time Sedgwick came up with the
Sixth corps, having finished a march Of
nearly thirty-six consecutive hours. To
what rescue they came their officers saT
and told them. Weary as they were, bare
footed, hungry, fit to drop for slumber as
they were, the wish for victory was 50
blended with the thought of exhaustion
that they cast themselves in turn en- masss
into line of battle, and went down on the
enemy with death in tn cir weapons and
cheers on their lips. The rebel camcls
back was broken by this Feather" His
line staggered, reeled and drifted slowly
back, while the shouts Of our soldiers,
lifted up amid the roar Of musketry over
the bodies of the dead and wounded, pro.
claimed the complet4 ness Of their victory,
meanwhile, as the division of Slocum's
corps on the extreme right left its postto
join in this triumph, another column Of
the enemy under command of Ewell, had
dashed savagely against our weakened
right wing, and as the failure to turn oul
left became known it seemed as if deter
miuation to. conquer in this part Of the
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