...et high — all in disobedience to orders. All this time there was more or less cannon and musketry. Orders were sent to take the crest: to push on at once! But plainly there was a hitch! Colonel de Chanal , who was standing with me, was frantic over this loss of precious moments. Mais, cette perte de temps! he kept saying. In fact Marshall's brigade had gone into the crater and had filled it, an...