...event him from lending assistance to Geary, he had sent a smaller column to move round his camp, and, almost in its rear, to occupy a steep hill nearly two hundred feet high. General Howard ordered Colonel Orland Smith , with his brigade, to carry the hill. In gallant response a magnificent charge was m ade up the steep side, and the enemy was driven from the barricades on top at the point of the bayonet. Longst...