The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-12-01

that we were not inviting them over,
but the general attitude Of Cen Lee
seemed to be: "Walk into my parlor,
said the spider to the n.y. and they
walked in. 1t was manifcstncxt day
for Burnside could not occupy his
present position except to fight: he
was under the guns Of Gen Lee with
Il river at his back. SO at daylight
the next morning N3th Lee and
Longstrect, with their respective staff
officers and couricrs, rode together
along Longstrcct line Of battle.
They stopped at Il residence just at the
cot of Lees Hill, and to right, call
d. think, the Randolph mansion"
took breakfast, and then rode up on
Ice Till a dense fog and smoke
coyercd the plateau and the enemy.
Nothing could be seen and nothing
heard, except that indcscribable buzz,
like the distant and uncertain noise of
bees, that so plainly tells the trained
soldier that an army is going into line
Of battle. On the hill was Lee and
staff Longstrcct and staff, Col. Free
mantle, of the British army. as an
observer, and about one hundred 9th
crs, officers and couricrs. Gen. Jack
son rode up and said few words to
Gen. Lee, and then went off and lean
ed against pine, looking on the
ground he seemed to be little
ashamed Of splendid new uniform he
wore, and pretty soon he rode off to
the right. Gen. Stuart, who had been
making a reconnaissance into the fog,
trotted up the hill whistling--hc
would whistle, it was the only serious
crime he was guilty Of. Wilcox rode
up while, and McLawe and Col.
Walton came over from Mary,'s Hill,
just to our left. Lee looked at his
watch several times. Gen. Kershuw,
whose brigade was at the time in re-
servo, between Lees aud NIaryc's
Hills, came up and talked with Long
street, and SO the hours wore on. It
was near 10 o'clock when suddenly
three heavy guns on our line, imme-
diately to our right, doomed out in
quick succession. "Therc she goes,
boys - said Stuart, and lcaping on his
horse, cantercd off to the right and
the other brigadicrs and Major Gener-
ais followed suit to their respective
commands. 1t was Lees signal of
battle.
Gen. Lee seemed to know that the
fog would clear up in few minutes,
and that the enemy would Immediate
ly attack, and so it turned out. In
less than ten minutes tho fog hegan
to whi,l upwards, and in less time
than it takes to tell it the white cloud
curtain rolled away, revealing the
grandest panorama I have ever seen
an army of near 100000 in battle ar
ray. "a dozen field glasses swept the
plateau from right to left, although
tho whole field wae visible to the nsk-
ed eye. The enemy did not delay
their move their left wing (of Frank
Inns grand div;sion) marched out
against our right wing. The word ran
around, "They are going to attack
jackson " Gu they went. And there
lay Jackson with twenty thousand Of
the finest infantry soldiers tie world
has ever seen, as silent and as terrible
as the tiger cat on the crouch. And
on they go. Suddenly line Of smoke
about mile long ran along Jackson's
front, then another, and another, I've
could not hear sound, the wind was
blowing in that direction,) while the
artillery on both sides opened with
fearful vigor, ours playing on the in
fantry with canister. The Federal
line Of battle was hurled back. They
rally and charge again, and again are
hurled back. Again they rally and
charge, and again are hurled back.
This timc Jackson s men charge, and
the Federal line, raked by Stuart with
twenty pieces of field artillery ct half
flank, are doubled up and Forced back
to the river under the protection Of
their heavy guns.
simultaneously with the defeat on
thoir left they commenced an attack
on their right-on Marye's H:!!. A.
tremendous cannonade was opened on
the hill from the Stafford Heights and
other points, and division charged
gallantly, but was repulsed with tre-
mondous slaughter. A second assault,
more formidable than the first, was
about torbe made by another division
in columns of brigades. The rain Of
shells on Maryc's Hill was redoubled.
Gen. Lee sent Gen. Kershaw with his