Across Deep Run are the head-quarters of Lee, who can stand by his tent and look down upon the battle-field. He can see what Couch and Wilcox are doing in the town. He is directly in front of Bernard's mansion, and can also behold all the movements of the Union troops on the plain. A. P. Hill's division of Jackson's corps is in front of him,—Hill's left resting on Deep Run, and his right reaching to Captain Hamilton's house, where the railroad crosses the old Richmond road. Hill's troops are partially concealed in the woods. Behind Hill are the divisions of Early and Taliferro,—Taliferro being on the right, near Hamilton's house. Farther in the rear, on the hill, is D. H. Hill's division, which is held in reserve. There are fourteen guns—from Pegram's, McIntosh's, Crenshaw's, Latham's, and Johnson's batteries—on the hill near Hamilton's.
Franklin's attack.
The diagram represents the position of the troops as witness from Franklin's Head-quarters, looking south.
| Union Positions. | Rebel Positions. | |||||||
| 1. | Doubleday. | 7. | Newton. | A. | Hood. | I. | Batteries. | |
| 2. | Meade's First Position. | 8. | Howe. | B. | Lane, Pender. | J. | Ewell's Division. | |
| 3. | Meade's Second Position. | 9. | Brooks. | C. | Thomas's Brigade. | K. | D. H. Hill's Division. | |
| 4. | Gibbon. | 10. | Burns. | D. | Gregg's " | L. | Stuart. | |
| 5. | Sickles. | 11. | Franklin's Head-quarters. | E. | Archer's " | M. | Batteries. | |
| 6. | Birney. | F., G., H. | Taliferro's Division. | |||||
Mr. Bernard has been a large slaveholder. His estate is known in the county round by the name of Mansfield. His negroes live in humble homes,—in cabins near the railroad, out towards Hamilton's. There, around the cabins, Jackson has placed twenty-one guns from Davidson's, Raines's, Caskie's, and Braxton's batteries. To the right of these, and between Bernard's and the railroad, are twelve guns,—Wooding's and Carpenter's batteries.
The road from Fredericksburg to Port Royal runs parallel to the river, about half a mile distant from the stream.
General Stuart, with two brigades of cavalry and his batteries of light artillery, hold the road. The Louisiana Guards are sent down to aid him. His line runs nearly at right angles with Jackson's infantry line, and extends from the railroad to the river. His batteries will have a cross-fire upon the First and Sixth Corps, whenever they attempt to move out from Bernard's to gain possession of the railroad at Hamilton's.