noon
that bleeding 's stopped -- '' On the left , around and before the Dunkard church , the very fury of the storm brought about at last a sudden failing , a stillness and cessation that seemed like those of death . Sound enough there was undoubtedly , and in the centre the battle yet roared , but by comparison there seemed a dark and sultry calm . Far and near lay the fallen . It was now noon , and since dawn twelve thousand men had been killed or wounded on this left , attacked by Fighting Joe Hooker , held by Stonewall Jackson . Fifteen general officers were dead or disabled . Hardly a brigade , not many regiments , were officered as they had been when the sun rose . There was an exhaustion .