Lee, his chief, meanwhile was closing in with the smaller force.

The whole line was reformed.

Jackson cried to Hill and Lane and other generals to push on.

The whole army was in line for a fresh attack, and they could hear the sounds made by the enemy cutting down timber and fortifying.
It was now nearly nine o'clock at night, and save for the fires that burned here and there and the flash of the picket firing, the night that hung over the Wilderness was dark and heavy.
Harry passed once more near the Invincibles, who were lying down, panting with weariness, but exultant.

They had lost a third of their numbers in the attack, but the wounds of his own friends were not serious.
"Do you know whether we charge them again, Harry ?" asked Colonel Talbot.
"I don't know, sir; but you know General Jackson." "Then it probably means that we attack.