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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)
ts, who are almost upon them. Humphreys also succeeds in taking position along the line which it is important above all to preserve. But the trial was a hard one; he will himself acknowledge hereafter that he thought at one time all was lost. He has left one-half of his effective force upon the battlefield, and it is necessary to count the flags that are floating along his line in order to realize the fact that it represents ten regiments. The detachment from the Second corps, under Colonel Devereux, which covered his right, has found no less difficulty in retiring in good order among the wounded lying on the ground and stragglers wandering over the field of battle. The consequences of the loss of the orchard are, however, as fatal to Barnes as to Humphreys. Sweitzer has posted himself on the right of Zook in that part of the road which has just been recaptured from Kershaw. Tilton has again formed his line, farther up on the ground which the latter has already captured from