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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
in which Wadsworth might attack with much advantage the following morning. The column under command of General Wadsworth moved about four o'clock. After entering the woods southeast of the Lacy House, line of battle was formed. After proceeding half a mile the skirmish line of the enemy was driven in and steadily pushed until it was too dark to see, when the troops halted in line of battle for the night. The line had gradually swung round so as to be facing more nearly south, between Widow Tap's [see map] and the Brock road—the left being perhaps half a mile from the Brock road. Hancock continued his unavailing efforts to drive Hill till eight o'clock, when night shutting down on the darkling woods ended the struggle. The combatants lay on their arms, mutually exhausted after the fierce wrestle; and many corpses lay in the tangled brakes and bushes, evidences of the bloody work done that day. The action of the 5th of May was not so much a battle as the fierce grapple of