THE ELEVENTH CORPS AT CHANCELLORSVILLE.

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THE WILDERNESS CHURCH (IN THE LEFT MIDDLE-GROUND) ANI) HAWKINS’S FARM (ON THE RIGHT)

AS SEEN FROM THE PLANK ROAD IN FRONT OF DOWDALL’S TAVERN.

t)ur right ought to have been drawn back toward the Rapidan, to rest onla t river at or near the mouth of Hunting Run, the corps abandoning so^Uch of the Plank road as to enable it to establish a solid line.” Yes; butwere ordered to Dowdall’s Tavern, and not to the Rapidan, three or fourjhiles in our rear! And our right was fixed for us at the “ Mill.” It is true6 mill no longer existed, but the point required was not doubted. Again,/ Us position, which Schurz recommended in his report subsequent to ourl tie, was the very one into which Hooker’s whole army was forced twoa ys afterward. He was so cramped by it that he did not dare to take thehensive. In that position, “solid” and fortified as it was, our army, out-, "'fiberhig Lee’s, was so badly handled by the enemy that Hooker at lastfilled it safer to return to the north side of the Rappahannock.x L^e strength of Hooker’s five corps, and Reynolds’s, which was not farj. 6 ^ud, was, on the morning of the 2d of May, about 90,000 effectives. Theght corps, the Eleventh, had in all, artillery and infantry, twelve thousand.^ u - Lee faced us with five large divisions, having on the spot about 40,000es » with considerable artillery.

f ln y youth my brother and I had a favorite spot in an upper field of myc tier’s farm from which we were accustomed, after the first symptoms of a0t *iing storm, to watch the operations of the contending winds; the sudden