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advance. Wilson turned to gallop back to bis command,but before be could get half-way there, the whole Confede­ rate left was crushed in like an egg-shell.

McMillan swept unchecked over Bate’s ruined line at Shy’sHill. The gallant Colonel of the Thirty-seventh Georgia didall that man could do to hold it, and dying at his post, gaveto the height the name it bears. The arch was broken;there were no reserves to restore it, and from right and leftthe Confederate troops peeled away from the works in wildconfusion. Prom the heavy earthwork in front of Doolittleone volley of cannon and small ai’ms was fired, but in theexcitement it was aimed so high as to do no mischief, andCox’s whole division was over the works before they couldreload. At the same time Hatch and Knipe, with their divi-sions of dismounted men, rushed in from the right, and,abandoning their artillery, the Confederates west of theGranny White road crowded eastward, running for life.Some were killed, many were captured, and Smith’s andSchofield’s men met upon the turnpike at right angles, andwere halted to prevent their organizations from being con-fused together.

Hubbard’s brigade, of McArthur’s division, which followedMcMillan’s movement, met with more resistance, and suf-fered more severely; but though some of the Confederate regiments held tenaciously to their works, and surrenderedin form, most of the troops broke their organizations entirelywhen the advance was taken up from centre to wings, andWood’s divisions now charged, with hardly a show of opposi-tion, over Overton’s Hill, from which they had been drivenback an hour before.