THE ELEVENTH CORPS AT CHANCELLORSVILLE.

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I next ordered a retreat to the edge°t the forest toward Chancellorsville,

So as to nucover Steinwehr’s knoll, the0lj] y spot yet firmly held. The batter-les ) except four pieces, were drawn offail d hurried to the rear. The stand atedge of the forest was necessarily;i s fiort one.

Heneral Steinweln*, being now ex-posed from flank and rear, havingae ld his place for over an hour, drewPis small remnants and all movedra pidly through openings and woods,m'ough low ground and swamps, thetVo nailes to the first high land south°f Hooker’s headquarters.

Captain Hubert Dilger with his bat-ei 7 sturdily kept along the Plank road,l ’tug constantly as he retired. Theonfbderate masses rushed after us inae forest and along all paths and^°ads with triumphant shouts and re-minded firing, and so secured muchP Tnder and many prisoners.

It was after sundown and growing^ a, 'k when I met G-eneral Hiram Gr.

, . ei ' v Y, commanding a division of the Third Corps, as I was ascending theigh ground above named. “Well, G-eneral, where now ?” he asked. “Yout e the right of this road and I will take the left and try to defend it,”

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POSITIONS OF THE 12TII CORPS AND PART OF THE3l> CORPS, COVERING THE CIIANCELLORS-VILLE PLATEAU, MAY 2 AND 3.

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Cur batteries, with many others, were on the crest facing to the rear, and ass °°u as Steinwehr ’s troops had cleared the way these guns began a terrible? aiUl °uade and continued it into the night. They fired into the forest, nowof Confederates, all disorganized by their exciting chase, and every effortIhe enemy to advance in that direction in the face of the fire was effectuallya ^red by the artillery and supporting troops.

stonewall Jackson fell that evening from bullet-wounds, in the forest in.) ( | >Tl t of Berry ’s position. And here, on the forenoon of the next day, May0 ^’ tbe gallant General Berry met his death. It was here, too, that officersthe Eleventh Corps, though mortified by defeat, successfully rallied the<h;i - ' e d brigades and divisions, and, after shielding the batteries, went, the night to replace the men of the Fifth Corps and thereafter6 e ud the left of the general line.v °r. in. 14