On Sunday morning Hooker was in a better position than he had been on the evening before.

He had lost 3,000 men and had been strengthened by 17,000, and now had 78,000 to oppose to 47,000.

The Confederate army was divided, and could reunite only by winning a battle or by a day's march.

The only thing which could have lost the battle of that day was the abandonment of the position at Hazel Grove, for from this alone was it possible to enfilade Slocum's line.

But surely it is within the limits of military forethought that a general who has occupied a position for two days and three nights should have discovered the very key to that position, when it lay within a mile of his own headquarters.