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as made, and the advancing Confederate lines received a volley from our artillery that perceptibly thinned their ranks and stayed their progress. Now a charge was made upon the batteries on our right, and they answer with canister, and the supporting regiments repel the assailants with the bayonet. Four times their lines were broken and driven back. Our company guns were twelve-pound Napoleons, smooth-bores, effective at 1,500 yds. We had exchanged for these at Harrison's Landing four Parrott rifles and two brass howitzers. We had employed these twelve-pounders at South Mountain and Antietam, but probably at no previous time had they been more serviceable than now, in aiding to check the advance of the determined masses that sought first by dogged onsets to break and scatter our ranks on the right, and later, to turn that flank with the hope of capturing a considerable number. The vastly numerically superior force opposed to General Sedgwick rendered it a triumph of generals