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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
force on the right was swept away like a cobweb by Jackson's mighty besom. . . .Never was an army more completely surprised, more absolutely overwhelmed. . . . Happily, night was approaching and Jackson's troops had to be halted and reformed, his three lines having become inextricably mixed. Boston Speech. With the exception of some of Schurz's regiments and Buschbeck's brigade, which made a gallant stand in some breastworks from which Doles drove it, there was no severe fighting until Berry's division could be placed in position. Then the lines were exposed to much hotter fire. However, the North Carolinians, as well as their comrades, had, although their success was marvelous, no such arduous battling as came on the next day. Col. H. A. Brown, in his Regimental History, says: We captured piles of fat knapsacks and piles of fatter Dutchmen. Private Faw, of Company B, remarked that the thick woods that we were passing through were like a strainer, letting the lean and lesser