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Hooker called for aid and General Mansfield rushed his corps into action, falling dead at the head of his men as they deployed in line of battle. For two hours the sullen conflict raged, blue and grey lines surging in death-locked embrace until the field was strewn with the dead, the dying and the wounded. Hooker was wounded.
His face went white, flamed red, grew purplish. His eyes bulged up at Lee's, his deep chest contracted spasmodically. Lee, summoning the force within him, drove thumb and fingers deeper. "Got enough?" he panted. For the last time Trevors strained with him and they rolled like death-locked mountain-lions.
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