A. Catharpen Road. B. Brock Road. C. Pine-Grove Road. D. Fredericksburg Road. E. Bowling-Green Road. F. Richmond Road. _L_. Longstreet. _E_. Ewell. _H_. Hill. 2, 5, 6, 9. Corps positions, 9th May. ............ Position of Grant, 17th May.] The line of battle was formed with the Second Corps on the right, the Fifth on the right-centre, the Sixth on the left-centre, with the Ninth nine miles distant, approaching by the Fredericksburg road. There was a severe engagement in the afternoon, brought on by the advance of the Second Corps, which pushed across an affluent of the Po, west of the Court-House. On the left, the Rebels made an attack upon Wilcox's division of the Ninth, but were repulsed. The battle was fought in the forest,--in the marshes along the Ny,--in ravines,--in pine-thickets, densely shaded with the dark evergreens that shut out the rays of the noonday sun,--in open fields, where Rebel batteries had full sweep and play with shell and grape and canister from intrenched positions on the hills. It began in the morning. There was an hour of calm at noon, but at one o'clock artillery and infantry became engaged all along the line. Grant was the attacking party. There was no cessation or diminution of effort during the afternoon. The Rebel outer line of works in the centre was carried by Upton's brigade of the first division, and Russell's brigade of the third division of the Sixth Corps. The men of these brigades, (and among them were the stalwart sons of Vermont,) without firing a shot, moved steadily to the charge with fixed bayonets; they were cut through by solid shot, their ranks torn by shells, thinned by constant volleys of musketry, but, with matchless ardor and unconquerable will, they went up to the line of earthworks, leaped over them, and gathered a thousand prisoners; they held the ground, but their valor had carried them so far beyond their supports that it was deemed prudent to withdraw them. There was some fighting on the 11th. General Lee sent in a flag of truce for a cessation of hostilities to bury the dead; but the request was not acceded to by General Grant.