CHAPTER XXIII.

BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG (CONTINUED).

The Battle-field veiled by a Heavy Fog--Terrific Fighting of the 13th of December--Forlorn Hope of the Federals--General Meade's Division of Franklin's Command makes the First Advance--General French leads against the Confederate Left-- Hancock follows--General Cobb killed--The Sunken Road and Stone Wall below Marye's Hill--Desperate Advances and Determined Repulses--Humphreys's Heroic Assault--The Stone Wall "a Sheet of Flame"--General Jackson loses his Opportunity to advance-- The Charge of Meade's Divisions compared with that of Pickett, Pettigrew, and Trimble's Columns at Gettysburg--Forty Per Cent. killed in charging Lines here, and Sixty Per Cent. at Gettysburg--Total Losses--Peace to be declared because Gold had gone to 200--Organization of the Army of Northern Virginia 306