... The formation of each division was ordered to be brigade front with intervals of two hundred paces. French's brigades was in the following order, viz: Kimball's, Andrews's, Palmer's, Hancock's, Zooks 's, Meagher's and Caldwell's. The strength of the column was nine thousand men. At the foot of the hill against which this column was to move, and behind the stone revetment of the telegraph road alre...