THE ELEVENTH CORPS AT CHANCELLORSHILLE.

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R ° M Photographs takenIN 1864.

! he reserve artilleryairly. Bilger, theattery commanderSchurz’s left, roll-balls alonge Plank road andJ olle d the wood.

As soon as onr men were nearenough the batteries opened, firingat first shells and then canister overtheir heads. As the attacking forceemerged from the forest and rushedon, the men in front would halt andfire, and, while these were reloading,another set would run before them,halt and fire, in no regular line, butin such multitudes that our men wentdown before them like trees in a hur-ricane.

By extraordinary effort we had filledall our long lineof cross-intrench-ments, mainly withfragments of or-ganizations andin-dividual soldiers.Many officers run-ning away stoppedthere and did whatthey could, butothers shouted,“We’ve done all wecan,” and ran on.\Schirmer managed

* 6 Ueral Steinwelir was on hand, cool,fleeted, and judicious. Like Blair at^anta, he had made his men (whosouth of Dowdall’s) spring to the

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' ^et us pause here a moment and fol-

r.y.

Poles, who led the enemy’s attack.

6 s fates that, after his first success-

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e,1 eral Sclrarz states in his report that the masses which were rallied here were reorganized andled forward two or three times, hut were dispersed by the enemy’s flank fire.— Editors.