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Hooker astir early The field near the Dunker Church Artillery combat Positions of Hooker's divisions Rocky ledges in the woods Advance of Doubleday through Miller's orchard and garden Enemy's fire from West Wood They rush for Gibbon's battery Repulse Advance of Patrick's brigade Fierce fighting along the turnpike Ricketts's division in the East Wood Fresh effort of Meade's division in the centre A lull in the battle Mansfield's corps reaches the field Conflicting opinions as to the hour Mansfield killed Command devolves on Williams Advance through East Wood Hooker wounded Meade in command of the corps It withdraws Greene's division reaches the Dunker Church Crawford's in the East Wood Terrible effects on the Confederates Sumner's corps coming up Its formation It moves on the Dunker Church from the east Divergence of the divisions Sedgwick's passes to right of Greene Attacked in flank and broken Rallying at the Poffenberger hill Twelfth Corps hanging on near the church Advance of French's division Richardson follows later Bloody Lane reached The Piper house Franklin's corps arrives Charge of Irwin's brigade.
The battle on the extreme right was ended by ten o'clock in the morning, and there was no more serious fighting north of the Dunker Church. The batteries on the Poffenberger hill and those about the East Wood swept the open ground and the cornfield over which Hooker and Mansfield had fought, and for some time Greene was able to make good his position at the church.
Between Meade's skirmishers and the ridge were the farmhouse and barn of J. Poffenberger, on the east side of the road, where Hooker made his own quarters for the night. These divisions were formed on the left of D. H. Hill, and in continuation of his line along the turnpike, but with a brigade advanced to the East Wood, which was held as a salient.
Looking south from the Poffenberger farm along the turnpike, he then saw a gently rolling landscape of which the commanding point was the Dunker Church, whose white brick walls appeared on the right of the road, backed by the foliage of the West Wood, which came toward him filling a hollow that ran parallel to the turnpike, with a single row of fields between.
Sumner's notion that Hooker's corps was utterly dispersed was naturally accepted, and McClellan limited his hopes to holding on at the East Wood and the Poffenberger hill, where Hooker's batteries were massed and supported by the troops that had been rallied there.
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