...t a great sacrifice of his men. Once he sent to Shelby for a piece of artillery, but Shelby was so nearly surrounded and was fighting against such odds that he could not spare a man or a gun. At last Shelby saw an outlet—a weak point in Ewing's lines —and under cover of his artillery mounted his men, sent to Shanks to join him, charged with all his force on the weak point and with terrible l...