...ose at hand. The character of these last assaults on the part of the Confederates, and their fruitless results, with the causes which wrought their failure, may be best illustrated by what befell Colonel Mouton and the 18th Louisiana Infantry. After 4 P. M. he was ordered to charge a battery on a hill, some 600 yards in his front. Advancing unsupported, the regiment soon became uncovered and exposed...