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But this reverse brought certain important advantages.
Their retreat not only concentrated their regiments; it also, for the first time during the day, concentrated their artillery, thirteen pieces of which were posted near together to the centre and right, so as to give a partial cross-fire at
a distance of three hundred to six hundred yards over the whole open plateau or hill about the Henry house and toward the Robinson house.
Under the personal directions of Johnston and Beauregard, they now formed their line along this semicircular edge of woods, with the advantage of a fringe of second-growth pines in their front to afford
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