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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 193 (search)
d Twelfth retiring under cover of Sumner's old division of the Second corps, now commanded by Hancock. General Hooker kept his headquarters at Chancellorsville, until the shot and shells flew about him like a storm of enormous hail-stones. These projectiles, unlike hail-stones, however, had fearful explosive quality, and all carried a destruction in their path which comparisons fail to convey to the mind. There were ladies at the Chancellor House. They were taken away by Lieutenant-Colonel Colonel Dickenson of Hooker's staff, after the firing became very hot. One of the ladies fainted. It was a forlorn sight, to see that troupe passing through our lines at such a time. Soon after they left, the house, which was a large and elegant mansion, took fire and burned to the ground. Again our lines were reconstructed. The fierceness of the fight was over before noon. The Twelfth was put upon the left of the Eleventh corps, sharing its line all the way. These two corps now formed on