At this appeal the exhausted troops put their caps on their bayonets, waved them aloft, and with loud cheers charged on the rebels and drove them out once more; but sixty guns opened upon them at close range with terrible effect; the promised reinforcements did not come; they were surrounded with ever increasing enemies, and forced to give up everything and retreat.

Stuart and Anderson then formed their lines on the south of and parallel to the Plank Road, facing north, and began to fortify the position.
Had they been disposed to follow up the retreat closely they would have been unable to do so, for now a new and terrible barrier intervened; the woods on each side of the Plank Road had been set on fire by the artillery and the wounded and dying were burning in the flames without a possibility of rescuing them.

Let us draw a veil over this scene, for it is pitiful to dwell upon it.
There was no further change in Stuart's line until the close of the battle; but Anderson's division was soon after detached against Sedgwick.
The new line taken up by the Union Army was a semi-ellipse, with the left resting on the Rappahannock and the right on the Rapidan.
Its centre was at Bullock's House, about three-fourths of a mile north of Chancellorsville.

The approaches were well guarded with artillery, and the line partially intrenched.

The enemy did not assail it.