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th and Twelfth, took its place.
The Eleventh, formed of the three divisions of Devens, Steinwehr, and Carl Schurz, passed for a German corps, but out of the twelve o
The extremity of the line, over the fields of the Taylor farm, was occupied by Devens' division, which fronted two ways, McLean's brigade prolonging that of Schurz, for locating his encampments, was too narrow to shelter him from any surprise.
Devens had planted on the Old Road or turnpike the only battery he had with him, two pd three o'clock two soldiers who had been sent out as scouts came to inform General Devens that the enemy was massing on his right—a valuable piece of information, whhe latter has taken possession of two pieces of cannon which had been posted by Devens on the road, and, soon after, of the remainder of the battery.
Before McLean hss than a quarter of an hour sixteen hundred men, out of four thousand of which Devens' division was composed, have either been captured or placed hors de combat; nea
llery—1st N. J. Art., Indep., 5th U. S. Art. (Bat.
F).
3d division, Maj.-gen. Newton.
1st brigade, Col. Shaler—65th, 67th, 122d N. Y., 23d, 82d Pa.
2d brigade, Col. Browne—7th, 10th, 37th Mass., 36th N. Y., 2d R. I.
3d brigade, Brig.-gen. Wheaton—62d N. Y.
Artillery—1st Pa. Art. (Bat.
C), 2d U. S. Art. (Bat.
G).
Light brigade, Brig.-gen. Pratt—6th Me., 31st, 43d N. Y., 61st Pa., 5th Wis., 3d N. Y. Batt.
Eleventh army corps, Major-general Howard.
1st division, Brig.-gen. Devens.
1st brigade—41st, 45th, 54th N. Y., 153d Pa.
2d brigade,—17th Conn., 25th, 55th, 75th, 107th O.
Artillery—13th N. Y. Bat.
2d division, Brig.-gen. Von Steinwehr.
1st brigade—29th, 154th N. Y., 27th, 73d Pa.
2d brigade,—33d Mass., 134th, 136th N. Y., 73d O.
Artillery—1st N. Y. Art. (Bat.
I).
3d division, Maj.-gen. Carl Schurz.
1st brigade, Brig.-gen. Schimmelpfennig—82d Ill., 68th, 157th N. Y., 61st O., 74th Pa.
2d brigade,—58th, 119th