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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
Federal column. Reynolds leads it in person on the Cashtown road, which must be absolutely barred against the enemy, advising Doubleday to place Meredith's brigade, which is following the first, on the left, and to extend his line as far as the Hagerstown road. The division artillery, relieving Calef's mounted battery, takes a position along the Cashtown road, which it enfilades, while Cutler deploys his brigade to the right under the very fire of the enemy. General Cutler, writing November 5, 1863, to the governor of Pennsylvania, accords the honor of the opening infantry-fire to the Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania, Colonel J. Wm. Hofmann commanding, and requests that the fact be recorded in the archives of the State.—Ed. The infantry finds itself engaged along the whole line even before it has got into position, for on the left Doubleday, understanding at a single glance the importance of the wood into which Archer has just penetrated, has ordered Meredith to take possession of it. Thi