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The Daily Dispatch: June 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
ily on our brave fellows, though it did not prevent the advance. Sickles on his First field. Still farther to the left was the Excavator Brigade, and General Sickles with it. Though on, we believe, his first battle field, the General had not the air or manner of a novice — He was all activity, and thought only of the way to win. Sickles's men apparently lost their patience, and we suppose the officers did, and General Sickles especially. When men advance a cross a battle field, loading and firing as they go, they naturally do not go very fast, and the Sickles brigade voted the gait to be decidedly slow. So the order was given to fix bayonets aGeneral Sickles especially. When men advance a cross a battle field, loading and firing as they go, they naturally do not go very fast, and the Sickles brigade voted the gait to be decidedly slow. So the order was given to fix bayonets and charge, and they did it not mincingly at all, but in terrible earnest, and with a glorious cheer. Some of the rebels stood it and held their places; some stood long enough to fire their pieces, and then ran; but the mass ran at once, scampered away through the woods like so many squirrels. That ended the fight for Sunday i