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It was not then too late to save the day. Fifty pieces of artillery, or even0l 'ty, brought np and run in front and to the right of the Chancellor House,^°nld have driven the enemy out of the thicket, then forcing hack deary’sri §ht, and would have neutralized the thirty guns to the right which werefounding us so hard. But it is a waste of words to write what might haveeen done. Hooker had made up his mind to abandon the field, otherwise he^"°hld not have allowed the Third and part of the Twelfth Corps to leave. lr ground for want of ammunition. A few minutes after my interview^ l th deary a staff-officer from deneral Hooker rode up and requested myPresence with that general. Turning to deneral Hancock, near by, I told,. Uri to take care of tilings and rode to the rear. The Chancellor House was611 burning, having been fired in several places by the enemy’s shells.

. ^-t the farther side of an open field, half a mile in the rear of Chancellors-I came upon a few tents (three or four) pitched, around which, mostlyVomited, were a large number of staff-officers, deneral Meade was alsoPresent, and perhaps other generals, deneral Hooker was lying down Iin a soldier’s tent by himself. Raising himself a little as I entered, he® a id: “ Couch , I turn the command of the army over to you. You will with-it and place it in the position designated on this map,” as he pointed tollle traced on a field-sketch. This was perhaps three-quarters of an hourI ter his hurt. He seemed rather dull, but possessed of his mental faculties,j a ° uot think that one of those officers outside of the tent knew what orders^as to receive, for on stepping out, which I did immediately on getting my^motions, I met Meade close by, looking inquiringly as if he expected that

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