e.
So he called another council of war at night, having called one before the fighting began.
In a little front room not twelve feet square in the Liester House his commanders assembled.
Should the army attack or wait the attack of the enemy?
was the written question they were required to answer; and they voted-as they should have done, being in superior position, with interior lines — to wait, as Lee had done at Fredericksburg, for another attack, and found him more accommodating than Burnside.
General Lee had a difficult task: the lines of his enemy had grown stronger during the night; Slocum, Howard, Newton (in Reynolds's place), Hancock, Sickles, Sykes, and Sedgwick's troops were all before him, and on his right and left flank was a division of cavalry under Gregg and Kilpatrick respectively.
The Union flanks, five miles apart on Culp's Hill and the Round Tops, were almost impregnable and difficult to turn.
Lee's strategy at Chancellorsville was bold, but his determinati
75, 76, 83.
Bryan, Lee's steward, 233, 234, 366.
Buckingham, Governor, of Connecticut, 221.
Buckland Races, 317.
Buena Vista, the battle of, iog.
Buford, General, John, at Gettysburg, 270, 271.
Bull Run, the battle of, 109.
Burnside, General Ambrose E., mentioned, 47, 48, , 175, 177, 180, 182, 205, 215; commands army, character, 222; mentioned, 224, 225, 226, 228, 229, 238, 239, 240; his corps at Petersburg, 355.
Burnt House Fields, 4.
Bustamente, General, mentioned, 172, 203, 205, 208.
Hilton Head, 130.
Hoke's brigade, 339.
Holmes, General, 101, 133, 135, 160.
Hood, General John B., 54, 203; at Gettysburg, 279, 280.
Hooker, General, Joseph, notice of, 47, 48; mentioned, 188, 195, 205; succeeds Burnside, 234; mentioned, 240, 242, 243, 244; wounded at Chancellorsville, 254; Order No. 49, 257; mentioned, 262, 263, 264; relieved, 268; sent to the Southwest, 314.
Hope, Beresford, A. B., 417.
Hope, Lady, Mildred, 417.
Hougoumont, Chateau of,