THE ELEVENTH CORPS AT CHANCELLORSVILLE.

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This was done hy a brigade of General Steinwehr, the commandei‘ of my leftdivision, though with regret on our part, because it required all the corpsreserves to fill up that gap.

The so-called Dowdall’s Tavern was at that time the home of Melzi Chan-cellor. He had a large family, including several grown people. I placed myheadquarters at his house. In front of me, facing south along a curvingridge, the right of Steinwehr ’s division was located. He had but two brigades,harlow on the Plank road and Buschbeck on his right. With them Stein-rrelir covered a mile, leaving but two regiments for reserve. These he put‘ s °me two hundred yards to his rear, near the little “Wilderness Church.”.

Next to Steinwehr, toward our right, came General Carl Schnrz’s division.T'irst was Captain Dilger’s battery. Dilger was one of those handsome,hearty, active young men thateverybody liked to have near.

■Sis guns pointed to the south-We st and west, along theGrange Plank road. NextKrzyzanowski’s brigade,a hout half on the front andkalf in reserve. Schurz’s rightbrigade was that of Scliim-lri elfennig, disposed in theSa me manner, a part deployedail d the remainder kept a fewhundred yards back for a re-S(il 've. Schurz’s front line of^fantry extended along the°hl turnpike and faced to thes °uth-west. The right division? the corps was commandedW General Charles Devens,afterward attorney-general in the cabinet of President Hayes . Devensa hd I together had carefully reconnoitered both the Orange Plank roadari <l the old turnpike for at least three miles toward the west. After this^onnoissance he established his division,— the Second Brigade, underMcLean, next to Schurz’s first, and then pushing out on the pike for half a/hie l le deployed the other, Gilsa’s, at right angles facing west, connectingis two parts by a thin skirmish-line. Colonel Gilsa’s brigade was afterwardFawn back, still facing west at right angles to the line, so as to make a more®Gid connection, and so that, constituting, as it did, the main right flank,he reserves of the corps could be brought more promptly to its support,W extending its right to the north, should an enemy by any possible con-agency get so far aroimd. A section of Dieckmanu’s battery which looked0 the west along the old pike was located at the angle,i. The reserve batteries, twelve guns, were put upon a ridge abreast of the

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POSITION OF THEtmCORPSat 6p.m.May2.1863.

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