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The prices are Btioderateand he franos equal to European maf'e. Samples yntto am part of the,(Sntederacy 4n the re-rif t t,f the wlu'lesale-pric." Prices h bp ascertained Maddr?finnii('oi'ederie Bonnet Fmnje Factory, f ox. 2J, Newberry, S. C4 23 1m . ' . f tf. CRINE A.CO. 03 A BOX. $30 A DOZEN. FOR THIRTi DOLLARS, a dozen boxes of the . " SOUTHERN , HEPATIC I'lLLS "will be seyt prepaid to any address. ; They tfi-e recommejided by the proprietor us pood only for LIER DISEASES. His correspondents say tl$at they cure Chills and Perers, Dyspepsia, j Pne,urhonia, Worme Jaundice. Uilious Rhlumatism, Bilious r Yer, &c, &cJ ... y v , More than 500 persons are knewn te kave been cured by them. "" Xfe More than 3700 '.boxes haT beea erdered by Drugits,n one'day ggy Of the thousand-i whoi have used them, the proprietor bas n,ot helrd of three opon ifhoru they did rfbt. produce the desired effect. They are d arc fomdy viedkine. Gentlemen certify that they have' Saved hundreds of dollars annually an Doctors bills in the use of these Pills. Certificates and directions accompany each' box. -'--.- ( Those fho rlcsire lss than a dozen boxes must apply to the Bruggistsj Large- dis count to Druggists, feash to accompany or lers. GEORGE W. ifEEMS, ' . d tt ' ", ' i ;Goldsb4rp N. C. BPECIALf NOTICE.. ' t 5ener 41 Hospital No. 3, " . Goujsboro Ji- C.,"May .Ith.l8i4. j' AfeltEEABLV to General Orders, 3fo. 34, Current Series, from Adjutant and.lnspeletor General's Office, an Examining Biard, for retiring disabled officers and privates, haj been organized at this AFiiho are authorizeof'to Appear, lfefore a Medi cal Examining Board, fo examination to be retir ed, are bereuv notinea ttiat mis ixntra meeis oniy An TnAsHav'sand Thursday's, at 3 ofaloek p. m. Those interestedrfeifespectfullj requested te b.goverfteaaccora1Bfi,y Sr. Surgeon of Board T?iiyh Confederate. Charlotte BHlletin, Fav- tteville Observer and Vilminptn Journal copy a week and forwara dims to mis orace. ! WM. G. MORISE. A T TOR N E ly A1 L. A W , ; ! GOLDSBORO,' N. C. ; yr Office, first floor of the Court House, ind opposite lhat)f the' Qounty Court Clerk , :d-Um : - --I.:') k- -i; - -r 1TEQRO. WOMAN WANTED k NEGRO WOMAN usel to hoiUework --"j v . fx. who can cook for a smal family,is w mte , f sr the b!aace ef the year or by t&e month. 4ppir i EDIT0B8 8TATM JOUJWALi. fCorrespondence of the London Herald. . j Battle of the Wilderness? i Fitu) of the Battle, or rii8 Nr, . No. 43. v Maj Bih 1864; ? ' v The worka occupied by Lee's army on the Rapidan extended on the right three miles below Racoon ford. Eweil's corps and Hill'a lay behind ihose defences, &Dd stretched but on each aide of OrariggCotirt House, along, a line of twenty miles ' LoUgftreet having returned some time ago from Eastern Ten nessee, occupied the' coun(ry around Goi donnville, thirteen miles south west, pf the pobitioa on the - Rapidan , Such had 'been the disposition of the armr of Northern Vir-!- gtm'a during the Utter part of ApriL Grant, having declined ' to assail Lee s . on that othcer s right. He marched ; east- wardly ftom hi eantonments in the county ectcu iuuvs luwcr uowu. t kjci uiauuii iuju, and a so.seven miles stiil'lowerdown, at Ely's Fei d, cre-sed the Rapidan. . The campaign in Northern Virginia, fraught a.i it is with the fate of the (Confederate States and of the United States,' took .thus its initial form on the 3d of May. . From. Orange Court House two roads the turnpike aud the plank road run on a line BomewBat north' of east to Freckericksburg.. Those two routes are ia general parallel. The plauk road consists'of oherack of worn planking, and another of earth; its course, very irregular, vibrates in and out on the south side of the. generally straight line, Inown as the turnpike. A ptetnk way runs frorn Culpeper Court House to Germanna Ford. Extending soulh-easterlyj . it crosses the turnpike ; and after a route of four or five niilea beyohd that, terminates on the! Orange aad Fredericksburg plank road. Besides these main lines teveral others tra verse the couutry around tfie bat le field of the Wildcriiess some pursuing a course" parallel with thwse, some crossing them more or leies 0&Q8versely. ( ! Grant's columns advanced from the Rapi dan on the 3d of May. That which marched from Ely's Ford followed an earfhen way,, leading to the junction of the Orange aeid Fredericksburg plank road with the plank road extending from Culpeper Court House, by way of Germanna Ford ; while the other coluraffi&rved down the latter route to the eame point, jd'hat junction once gained, not only had tha t osition of Lee on the Rapidan. been turned, but several road6 to Richmond would have been laid open. , Ef ell's Corps having been encamped on LeeViiiihLTtiiivfriggin. t . ' : . . 1 ,1 . . ' .. Pt uay guarding om of the. fords across the Rapidan. 'Johnston's division,., having the advance, followed the.turnpike and encamp ed for the night within three, miles of a stream flowing northwardlyWilderness Run. Rodes next in the order of march, lay in his rear alog the same route ; and Early, who had moved from Ewell's left at Somerville Ford, encamped for the night a little behind a place called Locust Grove Tha Second Corps had thus reached, on the .night of the 4th, a position from which Jt stood ready to strike on the following morn ing the flank of Grant's column of advanee. Johnston nroved'with his Diyjsion at the head ofEweU'.H" Corps on the 5th. Having throwti skirmishers put iutothe woods ou either.side of the turnpike, h discovered those of the enetny at bout six o'clock' in the morning. The musketry bn each side deepsuing, he pressed forward, with Gen. J. M.' Jones' brigade io gain a hill in bis front; , and haying, after a biief struggle, driven back,a heavy line of sharpshooters from that pitio, proceeded to form his troops in array of battle. ". . . , The Jhicket on all sides of the twe armies excluded the use of artillery save only for the width of the turnpike, Jones' brigade had been formed but a moment across that road when the enemy advanced in what , of o'der is practicable in a tangled forest. lie tpproathed with a heavy line of skirmishers. followed bj aohd column extending across the whole'tJbnfederate front, four lines deep. Stewart's and Stafford's prigades proceeded to form rapidly on Jones' left. To guard against the danger of an dverlapping breadth of attack, the brigade of Gen. Walker, which j Laving nursed the gemus of-Jackson, is known as the " Stonewall." formed at some distance from Stafford's Teft flank, covering it by a front at right angles fo that officer's line. In this position the division of Gen. Edward Johnson, of Ewell's corps, stood on the morning of the 6th to receive the enemy's onslaught. ' Johnson's ' skirmishers were driven in Those of the enemy took position in the, ad vancing column. The Fifth Ccrps of the Fedstal army, accompanied by two pieces of artillery, that, came thunding along the turnpike, assailed the Confederate line at the intersection of tfcai road- Receiving as it advanced a terrible fusilade without any sign of wavering, the rearranges pressing forwird those of the front, the attacking masses ae- livered from a forest of rifles a fast and furious fire upon Johnston's line.! Closing in upon it with "great spirit in 'front, and threatening to envelope it on its right, they succeeded, After a brief 'Struggle, in forcing back part of the brigade 1 hat hadbeen form ed across the turnpike that of General J.: ai. Jones; Two of his regiments the 2lst Va , commanded by Col- Witcher and the 2oth by- Col. Higginbptham holding their ground resolutely, Jones 6trove in desperation to rally his broktn troops. Threatening, entreat iug, shaming were of ne avail in arresting their I disordered flieht, and as he saw his men rush mg trom pe held in nopetess -comusion n fell from bis saddle a bleedmgcorpse. V-apu Early, of hia si aff.. unwilling to desert him, had but a few moments, previously wheeled hia horse frpm its Retreat ; butnly to share with his gallant chief while in ' the aot ; the saae red burial. t V Stewart oioved from his position fn ct Ud . , i , ' v . ,'. - . ' ; ' of battle to close the gap left in it by the brigade of Jones. As- te Federal1 massea poured through, , his "men lrushed forward with a cheer ; .and drivinjfthem back by the Almost simultaneously With the first signs of weakness in Jones' Um Daniel's brigade of North Carolinians and Gordon's brigade of Georgians, both of Rhcfles' diymotf, Tere. impel us vl ilia cuargc, tuurcu tuctr guus placed rabidly in line uip6pthe right Or dered immediately afterwards by Gn. Ewell to charge, Gordon, holding command of the moraement, crushed througn tae enemy a first line and captured as 4a went forward a whole regiment, men offesrs and colors. Driving onward furiously It struck back the( Federal front in cocfuoplupon its support Xa44oAttering bol 'u KTfcaTiia before . storm,. forced them off the field in utter rout for a mile and a half. - Hia front thus cleared. Gordon jfound the enemy's lines firm on both of his wings. Dividing his men into twO bodies he formed them at right angles to the line of his origiaal advance; and, sending them both forward back to" back, took the masses on his right and on his left in flank. Pressing on . them so euergeti pally as to hate prevented their formation across either of his lines , of rhovement, he swept them in disorder from the Confederate front for a width of a mile. . . . A tlhe moment dt Gordon.' s brilliant charge the enemy attacked the brigade of General .Stafford.. - Adead y conflict on that part of the field raged for some time doubtfully. - , The interpolation of those skirmishers be The marksmanship of Stafford'3 Louisanians, tween his two columns, suggest ed te General however, shot trul7 to the buckl 'S of the Lee the necessity of open:ng communications Federal belts; and strewed the: field with with Ewell. Captain Hotchkiss, of the En death and agony. Relling under itj delibe giheers of the 2d Corps having come up im- -rate fire theenemy finally fled,! marking his mediately afterwards, indicated the route for. Toute with his killed and wounded, and ad- ; that purpose ; and Wilcox's division, movinc ding!tpJiisbthec-t-ui8asJers the lo of six luuuicu jjn8n-i3.( xih tuia repuise, now- everjtke Confederates have to mourn the loss f Brigadier General Stafford. He fell mor- tally wounded. He had been a planter of Loui mna : out haunt sronethrouch most of I the battles of Northefn Virginia, bad become an excellent officer: aud w:it not more belov- ed by his men for his gentleness than he was admired by them for hi daring. Soon after the. onslaught upon the Con. federate front, the 6th Corps of the Federal . army advanced upon its leftjflank ' Coming up at right angles to the lineof movement of the 5th Corps, it's skirmisher were encoun tered by those thrown out ine- anticipation of attack in the direction frcM the Stonewall r&T'ir m.um .,UUU Wu u-wi .iwiraras upoa liistt iUufc feTi ; Dut.tiMgti th 'eaten ing to envelope it on the lef J failed to force back the men who had learnftl, heroic corf stancy from Jackson. Sorell pressed, how ever,! Pegram's Viginians. anl Hays' Louisi aniaus deployed rapi lly on thtr left. Gharg ging immediately upon the ledetal right, those fresh troops drove it b.nL; T.he furi ous ondaughtof Hays' men dl 'not expend itself until they had forcei th enemy to re retreat in" confusion for neari a mile. In advance of al others on that Ice. of the at tack, these splendid troops e heroes, you will recollect, of Winch?6t'l--havinir left. Ml b,k .,lh Pegr.m? -Milt fellow, to the general Hoe of battle: Ihe enemy routed wif cleat, slauchter from all points of .his a uce, r-wea pro- ceeded to select groundlir the morrow's battle. A esL-ded by GerJal Smith, ot' the engineers, he reviewed nilu ion; and.pro ceeded at once to cover hlif'rcHt with a line ot field works and an abitUof felled, trees Skirmishing continued Irrously outside the lines; -but the bat' le the 5th of May, on Lee's left appeared to re been lost and wor, Immeiia'ely befor !e close of. the General Pegram, eeuit!g, the skirmishers on Johnson s lett, came ana soon atterwards his snajooters spriiDir oacK irom meir rine-pus nis immediate tront. A column three tfc deeD'mnvett upon him trom the depths fee forest ; and . . - . ..Si . r v Pi pressed to- warns his works furiou Virginians, however, niet His staunch attack resb r their works'. lutely ; and, covered partial hurled . volley after voll n withering blasts, breast high, into' i med ranka. Slaughtered by this teiriblJj, t he-assail ants I paused, reeled, fled. the North had, however, n feeen calnH ., J Tn five lines a .column rank the auava. after nichtfall : butfdid so want 'other re suit than to increase terribW-.e hundreds of men that, dead ot dying otde the Con federate works, hxy welrenni their gore, p Pegram- who holdain his ye blood which a gallant member of L's famiKeclared' to be thicker-than water Jeil irihis lasi at- taclcseverely wounded. AM ing officer, his accident is' deeply regrett by his brig ade, but I am happy to add is t supposed to involve any danger to his j. The re pulse which he guided as he , closed the work of war for the dav o ie left ; and witnessed the Confederates stifc popses.sioa" of their improved position and anced lines, flushed with findoubt ed victorl Hill was ordered to march Jthe 4th from Leeleft- Anderson's divisic having been left behind for the time to gu i some fords in its front, Heth followed by ilcox, moved eastwardly, through Orange ourt House, 'alonV the Fredericksburir nla road. The divisions of those two officers Jvouacked for the night near a place calledFerdiersvilJeV Heth in advance, thev resume! their march f on the followiog day, still; pujuing the kind of the plank way. - , h - Tte ringof small arms on ie right an nouhceed. in the course of the orning of the 5th, a small cavalry affair 'nea the route of "Hill's colpmn. - The march t ill, however, continued, until itelicountercc atll o'clock, some dismounted cavalry ; bi: after a mo ment's pause, brushing1 those rom its way, till went orword. At one o'clock musketry wti sainhard in frtmt and, though- t firtt i , . - . : . , .' thought -to indicate the presence of merely a party of horse, proved, after some skir- mishing'- to have come" from a large body of infsatry. Kirkland's brigade, of Heth'a i xuuioiu, uvpiujrcu iuiuicviiai4:ijr Oil nom BlUCS of the plank road ;-and the whole column proceeded to form in line of battle on its .flanks; while the shafpshooteers of both ,nies kept up ; in front Sa; desultory and . auu eomewnai tanguiu nre. f Hill's advance followed, it will be recol leoted, the plank road, while Ewell's pursu' ed the turnpike 1'arafel lines in their gen eral direction, these 'movements stood at the j- time'of the deployment of Kirkland's brigade, . fron three to four miles aart. The country" ; intervening andround about for several miles f ' "is- knfiu it'TtarnecsrT "aliu n In very few "clearings," consists almost wholly. Of a forest of dense undergrowth. The en emy, apparently- bewildered by the charac .ter of the site of the approaching conflict, sent out scouts and skirmishers in every di rection from bhafront. Eight or ten of these, having strayed in between the" column ef Hill and that of Ewell, came into an open field in which thevi mieht have shot, as he sat with Gen-Hill and other officers orthe prpunu, mat iaoi or tLe army, Ueneral Lee. Those adventurous bliie-coats, finding them: belves in front of two bricadea of Wilcox's division, made a rapid retreat, ignorant, most happily, that a very precious life lay for a moment at the mercy of their rifles accordingly to the left-rhaving capturedtwp . xiuuureu uine enemy, on the way1 eflected, afier a march Of a -mile and a quarter- a junction-with Gordon's br rade. on Ewell's. extreme right. Theline of battle, thus 'com--. Dieted, extanded-frnm thA rlrrUt nf ha vdnnb- road through a succession of open' fields and dense forest to the left of the turnniVe It presented a front ol six miles; and, with Flat Creek in its rear, occupied a very irregular plan along the broken slopes of a broad H idge that rises from the stream knwn as Wilder ness Run. The thicket that lavalonirthft whole face of the Confederate array is so im- penetrable as. to have excluded the use of ar tillery by the enemy r save only for thebreadth of those openings where it is oenetrated on " eturnpike, ana on the right, vj uie.pianK rod. . . - musketry Degan at half. past two. to deepen m volume m front of Hill. Large, columns of the enemy, enveloped in clouds of dust, were .seen at that time moving up from the rear in the direction of the deafening fire. 1 os&ession of the intersection of the plank road fromGermanna Ford with that from Orange Court House opening as it would a favorable line for Federal Advance southwardlv, was shown by the 'enemy's mo cements 'to be about to become the subject of a bloody enO counter. . ; J iHeth's skirmishers were driven in about 3 o ctociC. Thev were fnllrtw1 i-i.. i spiritedly, firta th .ZZ ,JT. advaticed, its musketry, in the (.rs of a man approaching the field of battle, rolled through he depths of the forest like' the roar of miirh tv ; waters, i RaoaI. .. . . . , ..v.,w,:.,0 . u ,,UCB . oa ne ona hand, and bn the other an attck that sought 1 1? T,Ycejt8,waJ ratJierby constant pressure H dashing enterprise, the struggle in Hill s front continued for two or three hours, unbroakeniM its terrible jnonotrryby even any dwturbance of the rapidVegularity with which it added to its masses of grim death or of mortal agony. . Heth's division bore, at first, the whole 'brunt of the Federal onslaught. The Wavy colamns. pressing so obstinately upon its front fkiled to break its heroic constahcV Thick and fait its men crept to the reaV, bleeding, or dropped in the ranir u..; still it gave no signs of yielding One half of its number of the morning had been placed n r, au comoat. The weight of the immense masses hurled trminoi t ... , tj., r, .j irn,6" "Tiug excueu in Lieut. Ged. Hill spm, feara for its solidity orders were sehfto Wilcox to come up wifh his division from Rwoli'i.trif .k ' . i l. i .nnders 01 Iuur ti uic cCowV- - . , .,,rmA the combat runs en tnt- piana. v. - fo be one of extraordinary fierceness. v Wilcox, gtftded by the heaviness ofthe fire. "TLLn hnade in rear oLHeth's r , j i ...a : n th Tirht ana to .nlovtd Tt to the right . nf the Dlank-road. The conflict soon Kt U bat direction, he - ; . . . d bneade, as it arm- neiv niu . " n i , , fi.id nn the left flank; but had !. 1 drwn it un in line of battle than it became exposed to musketry so compTete i.. ;n-i.m a to have wounded me il VS. mr an in XI 19 UJu aw ; m . J V.t thA ; nanir l .iiiiti"iuiL a v " stautly to the rear, and swinging rouuuui left, he found nimseii tumiwuvv. j - . . lino ttf hattle. " t fVnm tbe emshincr weicht of the in Hath's front. W ilcox drew up another of his brigades in that officer s rear,. ,i v;.k f the tlank.-road. Thhfarse roll of the fire extending, subecquehtly. in - thav dtrectiorr, he placed his last brigade for the protection of that flank, m extension oi Helh's array on, the extreme right. " Two ue:i'o irodfts lav thus in reserve in rear of the centre, while another occupied each of the two flanks i of the line or Dauie. i terriblenes of the Federal musketry at this moment was such that, having tern a section ; of the trunk utterly to shreds,' it. actually j cut down a white oak tree paving a diame-j ter of tight een inches I - - . , i 4 The loss in Heth's division had become so heavy that Wilcox's brigades in reserve n ere moved, at about half-past five, to the fronts IlGowni 86ntA Carolinian tkos broufpt 'i aetay. Reaped. his horse o,ver a rank thai had lain down to let his men pass. Spurringfor ward, waiving his sword ,as he went, vhe war f3llowedbv his' bri iradel With a rhuor Jtnrl ' plungiug immediately into the depthi of the conflict, drove back the enemy by hisimpet- - uoiiostlash, for several hundred yards IWil - edx, seeing the Federal lines on each side of the breadta of that charire of the fierv South Carolinians stand firm, beeme apprehensive for their safety; and, ordering them atlonce to fall bacjt, placed them in the positioi as. signed them io the array of battle; - ITJie' murtierous Conflict raged in fierce monotony hduj eigne cieed over tneMjomederaie s line in thej)08itipn it had originally takehjThe prtson ersrc1lpttrft!d"" bth corps, the 2d and the oth corps; and this fact points to the suppo ition that thelgal lantSiviiions of Heth and Wilcox aottialry held at bay rom three b'tbek until half- ' past seven three Corps of the Federal afmy . Heth's division was "ordered.' during the night of the 5thvto go to the rear as a resserve Lane's, Scales'. McGowan's .and Thomas' brio-ndAs en"; ere Is Wilcox occupied the front' Videttes sent, put, dui vent urea oniy a snort distance. from the line of battle. The two armilsllay indeed. SO cloRP tn fl.eh nfhikr (Tii-nnrrnAii tht a . v 1- 4 . a ' . .- n night as to be within easy ear-shot. A small stream on the Confederate left constituted their mutual supply of water; and was i?o near both that men from either side gjfrng but to fill their -canteens from it were cr off en captured by some from the othej. Colonel Baldwin of the 1st Massachus(ets regiment, more thirsty than prudent, beckme in that way a tenant of the Libby prisonr. i Longstreet's Corps, (it will be recollected lay, on the 3d, thirteen miles southwes Of me position on tne itapidan.1 urdered or ward 'by Gen. Lee, it mrchcd from the neighborhood of Gordonsvilb-on the mrn ifig of the 4th. On the night of the 5tl, it halted iwithin twelve miles of the field of th3 battle of that day!. Intending to folio v a road known as the Catharpen, fwith a vpfevr to a movement upon the rear of- the enemy's left flank, it became necessary, under; the rapid development of Grant's masses of ab ack, to call it to the support of the from .. -Its intrepid chief, iqformed after midnfght of the danger of Hill's Corps, was orderer to move up to the plank road, with the Vier of meeting the renewal of the shock of the5th it . . ll n y-v upon the right Breaking up his bivoaac, 1 Longstet cl mm ebmarcTaboulQ I o'c'bek in thd morning to th field of battle crraTrreastrna nrtr -Tnirr " leiui. .upon ine leit would occupy suflicfent time . to delay the attack upon the right until the arrival and deployment of Longstreet's men, regarded the state of things; on jthe dawn of the 6th without alarm: Wilcox had however, looked anxiously throughout ahe night for the coming of the divisions of An derson and Field; and, disappointed in the delay of their arrival, began at daybreak to cover, his front by an abattis of felled trees. The menemployed for that purpose were im. mediatelyfired upon by the enemys skir mishers ; and, in the next moment, rushed to their rifles, before the advance of an attlck in heavy column - The Federals had spent the night in Securing good positions for their ":. onslaught of Ihe morning ; and, coming np.w ! in great force from points threatening Herb's V and Wilcox's envelopment, forced" the M lant divisions of those officers to wavehi- Shattered in st'ensth bv the terrihl &trnU r- gle of the day before , and having" already t maintained a resistance of three quartefslpf an hour against i njumbors absolutely crush ing, they finally gave way. Continuing jat first a desultory fire as they retreated, the right wing, south of the plank road, broke . into disorder and finally fled in confusion ha- fjre t'ie e emy'soverwhelming53lumns. . j ! Wilcox seeing his lines shattered hopeless ly rushed backup report to Gen. Hill. The Federalists pressed forward so vigorously that he had but arrived at that point wh4n he looked back to behold his disordered -ranks' surging already within 150 yards If the positron of Gen. Lee. The head of Mj Laws' fine division of . Longstreet's corps came up immediately, undfer the command of Brig. Gen. Kershaw, and so out-spokett ' was die augury of vicftry in its flashing ey k ' reverie WnSfWg. JlflW1 u-ftu. Jj . ' Jheday bad illuminated their previous st. iie with unflinching Constancy, r , r- ; .-, glIl "t,on,mn was for a moment entertained the enemy's advance wouiu pic v -r tpe enemj o Aimn, tn lma. Wnvment of the spproacniug v r" K0??!-.. Wade of South Caro-iiniafas 'navin tne -aavanue u y.fc-" , bad the honr to be tne nrsnu ing up across the plan " 7 luo . :n- ond the shattered to . the trains, in ix vV rr -- .; . , . UAlh OT1I HI COi "lJ " ' w;i.-w thew - &t' Cr".;.a nuance, in the teeth bf a fire, in which tney -ou ; It wre a storm At mere naii- j-11'- - ; feared at the time, lance, u -.: could not be maintained ior (Their front swept, by a tempest of bullets, thev were, threatened, on' their right flank, wi envrfopm nt. Their heroic' fir mne I Triumphed, however ; for the nngheir f rifles had, before long -whirred its death-rat ,. 5!? so many a Federal iieart,;that thcas- sailants began, after torecOJ, into action, their gallant-chief, impatient of J rpiraJes. having,. wro 'UC,1""1W So line on ihe righ the enemy was soon afterwards checked at aU Vr the tide of battle commenced, after, a short tim?. to roll slowly back;: ; ; rv-. ' 1 .'-; McLaws' division once in Ime, nnder Kler- : .haw, Fields! mea formed Pnit as they came up. 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