...lent, motionless and terrible, but if there was any giving away we did not see it. They fired at us before we pulled trigger and came on with vibrant shouts. Not until they were well up in view did Colonel Corse break the silence, and his voice was a shriek as he ordered: Fire! All the guns went off at once, and the whole brigade fire seemed to follow our volley, and the enemy's line, sadly thinned, ...