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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the first conflict. (search)
ought over those troops at the nearest point of the field of battle, and of forming them into regiments on the spot as fast as they landed. This precaution was the much more timely as the Federals were only within three kilometres of the road, and might succeed in cutting it. Johnston, leading his soldiers in person, had brought them through the woods which extend westward of the Sudeley road, on which the Federals confidently rested their extreme right. Without waiting for their comrades, 1700 men of Elzey's brigade, headed by Kirby Smith, one of the best officers in the Confederate army, fell suddenly upon this flank at the moment when Beauregard was watching their movements from a distance with so much uneasiness. Smith was wounded, but his fall did not check his soldiers, who were supported by a battery of artillery, and the Federals, surprised and disconcerted, were thrown into confusion. At the same time, Early, who had only received Beauregard's orders at noon, approached