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If this picture were extended a little to the left itwould include the Union monument. General BradleyT. Johnson, commanding a brigade in Jackson’s olddivision, in his official report describes Porter’s assaultat this point on Saturday, August 30th, as follows:

“ About 4 r. m. the movements of the enemy weresuddenly developed in a decided manner. They stormedmy position, deploying in the woods in brigade frontand then charging in a run, line after line, brigade afterbrigade, up the hill on the thicket held by the 48tli, andthe railroad cut occupied by the 42d. . . . Before the

railroad cut the fight was most obstinate. I saw aFederal flag hold its position for half an hour within tenyards of a flag of one of the regiments in the cut, and go

down G or 8 times; and after the fight 100 dead men werelying 20 yards from the cut, some of them within twofeet of it. The men fought until their ammunition was

exhausted and then threw stones. Lieutenant-

of the battalion killed one with a stone, and I saw himafter the fight with his skull fractured. Dr. Richard P.Johnson, on my volunteer staff, having no arms of anykind, was obliged to have recourse to this means ofoffense from the beginning. As lino after line surgedup the hill time after time, led up by the ir officers, theywere dashed back on one another until the whole fieldwas covered with a confused mass of struggling, run-ning, routed Yankees .” [See note to picture, p. 485.]

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eral, the staff, and of the headquarters’ bureau, was strapped to the pommelsand cantles of the saddles, and these formed the pillows of their weary owners.

The captured dispatch aroused Jackson like an electric shock. He was essen-tially a man of action; he rarely, if ever, hesitated; he never asked advice;he did not seem to reflect, or reason out a purpose; but he leaped by instinctand not by tlie slower process of ordinary ratiocination to a conclusion, andthen as rapidly undertook its execution. He called no council to discuss thesituation disclosed by this communication, although his ranking officers werealmost at his side; he asked no conference, no expression of opinion; he madeno suggestion, hut simply, without a word except to repeat the language ofthe dispatch, turned to me and said, “Move your division and attack theenemy ”; and to Ewell, “ Support the attack.” The slumbering soldiers sprangfrom the earth with the first summons. There was nothing for them to dobut to form, and take their pieces. They were sleeping almost in ranks;