George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain

[126] Fulkerson's brigade and part of Carpenter's battery towards his left. Garnett followed, and then came the artillery of McLaughlin and Waters's batteries. When Jackson reached the crest of the ridge, he formed a line of battle (perpendicular to its direction) with Fulkerson's brigade on the left, posted behind a stone-wall which ran down the western declivity of the ridge, and with four of Garnett's regiments and two of Burks's in the centre to the northwest of the crest. The wall was on the southern edge of a rocky field, the northern side of which was thickly wooded. Colonel Kimball (commanding a brigade), as the ranking officer on the field after Shields was hurt, was in command of the Federals. Anticipating Jackson's very transparent device, Kimball laid his plans to meet it. The Cedar Creek road leaves the turnpike at the toll-gate, and, running westerly, crosses the ridge within about a mile of Jackson's position. Tyler's Federal brigade, at 2 P. M., was at the junction of the Cedar Creek and Strasburg roads. At 3 P. M. it had crossed the ridge, and was moving rapidly along the crest and both faces to reach the battlefield, which it did at 3.30 P. M., just in time to encounter the infantry which Jackson was sending forward to turn the Federal right. Behind that growth of timber our troops gained a vantage ground unperceived, from which Tyler attempted to turn Fulkerson; but he could not draw him out from that wall, so he turned his attention to Garnett, whose line was concealed in the undergrowth, and marched across the open to get at him. Reinforcements of the Fifth and Sixth Ohio and the Thirteenth of Sullivan's brigade, the Fourteenth Indiana, Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania, seven companies of the Sixty-seventh Ohio, and three companies of the Eighth Ohio of Kimball's brigade were hurried forward to Tyler. Then commenced a fierce assault. Bravely did the Federals charge up to and into