... infantry when pressing Ramseur's line. Fitz Lee, from across the Redbud, poured a hot fire into them with his sharpshooters and Breathed's Artillery, while Nelson's and Braxton's Battalions, under Colonel T. H. Carter , their guns double-shotted with canister, ripped broad gaps through their lines when they had got close enough almost to feel the hot breath of the tongues of flame upon their cheeks.