#AA 11 The artillery of the Rebels had opened a furious barrage from behind their works, covering their retreat. And the General did run forth from the building, plucking splinters from his flesh, and crying out orders; and the officers who had been idling upon the pews did scatter in haste, as shells burst round about them, and solid shot did strike the trees, shattering them at the trunk. 12 And the artillery of the Federals was brought up to answer the guns of the enemy; but I remained within the chapel, having a slender hope that by my presence the Lord might yet spare the building. Yet even as I prayed, the shot did tear great openings in the walls thereof; and two shells from the enemy’s chief battery did burst above the roof. 13 And the sound of the guns did cease suddenly, in a manner not to be accounted for; and in the darkness and the dust I did cough, and was taken with a great and grievous pain. And as I lay in the dimness and in great suffering, I heard the voice of a woman.