[The Star of Gettysburg by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Star of Gettysburg CHAPTER IX 40/91
But it was only a glimpse.
Then they were lost from his sight in the fire and smoke. There could be no sufficient defense against the charge of such a foe, numerous, prepared and wild with victory.
They swept over the breastwork, they seized the cannon, they took prisoners, and before them they swept the right wing of the Union army in irreparable rout and confusion.
Harry had not seen its like in the whole war, nor was he destined to see it again.
An entire corps had been annihilated. The Wilderness was filled with the fragments of regiments seeking to join the main force with Hooker at Chancellorsville. Harry thought Jackson would stop.
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