CHAPTER VI.
SICKLES FIGHTS HIS WAY BACK .-- ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST CORPS.
Sickles, with his ten thousand men heaped up at Hazel Grove, was still cut off from the main body and could only communicate with Hooker's headquarters by means of bypaths and at great risk.

The last orders he received, at 5 P.M., had been to attack Jackson's right flank and check his advance.

He determined to do this and force his way back, and with the co-operation of Williams' and Berry's divisions, retake the Plank Road with the bayonet.

Ward's brigade was posted in the front line and Hayman's and Graham's brigades a hundred yards in rear.

A special column, under Colonel Egan of the 40th New York, was formed on the extreme left.