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Divisions. Birney. Berry. Whipple. Fifth Corps. Meade. Sixth Corps. Sedgwiok. Eleventh Corps. Howard. Divisions. McClean. Von Steinwehr. Schurz. Twelfth Corps. Slocum. Divisions. Williams. Geary. Cavalry Corps. Stoneman. Divisions. Pleasonton. Averell. Gregg. Headquarters, Second Corps, Army of N. Va.: April 13, 1863. General Orders, No. 26.
Steinwehr was in reserve, and Reynolds, somewhat to the rear, moved forward on the extreme left. The line was more than two miles long; the artillery, hampered by the ground, could render but small assistance; and at no single point were the troops disposed in sufficient depth to break through the front of the defence. The attack, too, was piecemeal.
This order was preceded by one from General von Steinwehr, a German brigadier, directing the arrest of five prominent citizens, to be held as hostages, and to suffer death in the event of any soldiers being shot by bushwhackers. The Confederate Government retaliated by declaring that Pope and his officers were not entitled to be considered as soldiers.
Deven's division, on the extreme right, received the first blow, and almost instantly the surprised troops, panic-stricken, fled towards the rear, along the line of the corps, communicating their emotions of alarm to the other divisions.... In the wildest confusion the fugitives rushed along the road towards Chancellorsville, upon the position of General Carl Schurz, whose division had already retreated, in anticipation of the onset, and the turbulent tide of frightened men rolled back upon General A. Von Steinwehr, utterly regardless of the exertions of the commander of the corps and his subordinate officers to check their flight.
I don't think we're any too rich, Garrett, in ammunition. Better go tell General Jackson so." The men talked, Hill's men and Ewell's men on Hill's right not volubly, but with slow appreciation. "Reynolds? Like Reynolds all right. Milroy? Don't care for the gentleman. Sigel Schurz Schenck Steinwehr? Nein. Nein! Wonder if they remember Cross Keys?" "They've got a powerful long line.
And one of his brigadier-generals, Steinwehr, has seized innocent and peaceful inhabitants, to be held as hostages, to the end that they may be murdered in cold blood if any of his soldiers are killed by some unknown persons whom he designates as "bushwhackers."
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