...tree laps with the ends of limbs pointed and sharpened. Here many a brave boy met his fate without flinching. The right under Huger, the centre under Longstreet and D. H. Hill, and the left under G. W. Smith , were pressing steadily forward. A Northern writer, from this point of view, describes the scene thus: Our shot tore their ranks wide open, and shattered them asunder in a manner frightful t...