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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Johnson's Island — the Confederate prisoners there. (search)
lm observation. This was the pinch, and the officers knew it. Gen. Gibbon had just been hit, some one said, and almost at the same time Gen. Hancock was badly wounded, and both were taken off the field to the rear. But I recollect seeing Gibbon's aid try to rally the men, and do it manfully too. He did a man's part in steadying the line. So did Webb, who was on foot in the midst of the men. Entreaty, command, expostulation, encouragement, were employed. Webb was everywhere. So was Col. Smith, of a Pennsylvania regiment. At this time the enemy were crowding over the stone fence near the clumps of trees, and their red flags were waving, as it seemed to me, in triumph already, though Hall was all right and his men were steady on our left. Presently some one near me said that the enemy were massing their men in front of Webb, opposite the clumps of trees, and we began to wish for Hall's help. By this time the officers had stopped the falling back, and were driving stragglers to