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men were rushing to the front. Four guns, which had beenplaced a few yards to the left of the road, were in the enemy’shands, and were loaded with canister. These were turnedupon the flank of Reilly’s line, but the frightened horses hadrun off with the ammunition chests which contained theprimers, and while the captors were unsuccessfully tryingto fire the pieces, the reserve was upon them. Four otherguns on the right of the road were also in the enemy’shands. There was a few minutes’ fierce mSlge, but the gunswere retaken and all of the men in gray who were inside theparapet were dead or prisoners. Yet the successive lines ofassailants charging the works allowed no respite. ColonelWhite received a severe wound in the face, but refused toleave the line till after nightfall, and Opdycke had joinedpersonally in the thickest of the deadly tussle on the turn-pike. Our men, who had been driven back from the line,rallied by officers of all grades, returned to their posts, min-gling with those who were there, making a wall three or fourdeep, those in rear loading the muskets for those who werefiring. While rallying these men Stanley was wounded,his horse was shot under him, and he was reluctantly per-suaded to return to his quarters, for surgical help.
Farther to the right, and in part of what had been Strick-land’s brigade line, the Confederates of Brown’s divisionheld the outside of our parapet, so that when their com-rades were driven back they were able to prevent our menfrom reaching it again. These, seizing upon fences andsuch material as came to hand, made a new barricade withinabout twenty-five yards of the first, and across the narrowinterval the battle raged with most persistent fierceness. Itwas hard to tell where either brigade line ended, for Op-dycke’s men mingled with Reilly’s on the one side, and withStrickland’s on the other, and the three crowded the space