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fl ying "buttresses for an army’s^ability. Across Talley’s fields tlier °ut begins. Over at Hawkins’shill, on the north of the road, Carl’h'iiurz makes a stand, soon to bedriven into the same hopelessPanic. By the quiet Wilderness' Inarch in the vale, leaving wound-e d and dead everywhere, by MelziChancellor’s, on into the deepthicket again, the Confederatehn.es pressed forward,—now bro-hnn and all disaligned by the den-hty of bush that tears the clothesa ^ a y; now halting to load anddeliver a volley upon some regi-or fragment of the enemythat -\vill not move as fast asothers. Thus the attack uponlooker’s flank was a grand suc-Ces s, beyond the most sanguineex pectation.
The writer of this narrative, ana ide-de-camp of Jackson ’s, was°i’dered to remain at the point^ v here the advance began, to be
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BRIGADIER-GENERAL E. F. PAXTON, COMMANDING THE“STONEWALL” BRIGADE OF COLSTON’S DIVISION,KILLED MAY 3. FROM AN AMBllOTYPE.
e en the general and the cavalry on the flanks, and to deliver orders
^ detachments of artillery still moving up from the rear. A fine black^ ar ger, with elegant trappings, deserted by his owner and found tied to ag ee > became mine only for that short and eventful night-fall; and aboutW in the twilight, thus comfortably mounted, I gathered my couriersh m6 au d went forward to find General Jackson . The storm of battleu swept far on to the east and become more and more faint to the ear,th 1 ^dence came with night over the fields and woods. As I rode along^at old turnpike, passing scattered fragments of Confederates looking foreir regiments, parties of prisoners concentrating under guards, woundedj. 11 Ab r the roadside and under the trees at Talley’s and Chancellor’s, I had^ G hed an open field on the right, a mile west of Chancellorsville, when, int 6 dusky twilight, I saw horsemen near an old cabin in the field. Turninga ^ ai 'd them, I found Bodes and his staff engaged in gathering the brokenj Mattered troops that had swept the two miles of battle-field. “ Generaljj is just ahead on the road, Captain,” said Bodes; “ tell him I will be
i e at this cabin if I am wanted.” I had not gone a hundred yards before I* i bring, a shot or two, and then a company volley upon the right of thea ' ’ and another upon the left. " ' “ T
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A few moments farther on I met Captain