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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
is back, and facing some woods and brush, behind which Sibley had halted his men. Being fully aware that in order to impart strength to his line he could only rely upon his artillery, Canby had posted Captain McRae's battery on the left, and Lieutenant Hall's two guns on the right, assigning no other task to the infantry than that of supporting them. Up to two o'clock the fighting was confined to a cannonade, in which the artillery of the Federals, being better served than that of their advemand of the whole army from Sibley, who was sick. He immediately made arrangements to throw his intrepid soldiers upon the Federal artillery, the galling fire of which was beginning to affect them. On the left his cavalry was preparing to charge Hall's guns, while a portion of his infantry advanced in the centre as far as the skirt of the wood, to occupy the attention of the Federals. In the mean while, he massed two regiments on the right, his own, upon which he particularly relied, being on