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160 Dutchmen. Private Faw, of Company B, remarked that the thick woods that we were passing through were like a strainer, letting the lean and lesser Dutchmen through, and holding the fat ones.&quot; Colonel Parker, of the Thirtieth, says that "upon the attack, many of these surprised Germans broke to the rear, shouting in terror the ominous word, Shackson! Shackson! &quot;

During this rapid advance, the front lines, in the ardor of the pursuit and by the entanglement of the wilderness, became so mixed that it was necessary to halt for adjustment, and A. P. Hill s line was ordered forward to relieve the two front lines. It was during this change in his lines that General Jackson, one of the pillars of Lee s success, was wounded by the relieving line. These troops, having just come into position, did not know that he was reconnoitering in front. When Hill’s regiments reached the front, line of battle was formed. Lane s brigade was in advance. His Thirty-third regiment was deployed in front as skirmishers; the Seventh and Thirty-seventh were on the right of the road, the Eighteenth and Twenty-eighth on the left. Jackson meant to push his attack immediately on with these fresh lines, but his fall and the wounding of General Hill stopped the further attack. During the night, when Sickles was pushing his way back to his friends, the Eighteenth, Twenty-eighth and portions of the Thirty-third North Carolina regiment distinguished themselves by effective work against him, and won General Heth’s hearty praise. During Jackson’s triumphant progress, Anderson hotly attacked the Federal front, but there were no North Carolina troops on his part of the field.

Before the renewal of combat, Sunday, May 3d, each of the contestants formed new battle order. Hooker drew Sickles back from Hazel Grove in the morning, and posted the whole of Sickles corps and Williams division of the Twelfth corps in works on a crest to the right of Fairview, and at right angles to the plank road. Fairview