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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 9: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
son now directed his attack, nothing but my three small regiments was left to confront not less than five Brigades of Branch, Archer, and Pender of Hill's division, the Stonewall brigade and Taliaferro's, with what was left of Garnett's of Jackson's own division. entire brigades of the enemy, of which four were in line when we came upon the field, and one reaching far around to envelop our right. Of the ten brigades which Jackson threw — out of the twelve in his army Stafford's and Fields's, of Hill's division, were not engaged at all.--into the fight at Cedar Mountain, one half of them awaited our attack on the right of the road across that deadly wheat-field. My force was less than 1,500 men; the enemy's could not have fallen short of 8,000 out of his whole command of from 20,000 to 25,000 men. It will be seen that the woods opposite must have been literally packed with Rebels, and that they must have extended far beyond our right to have enabled even one third of the men