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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
ries, convinced the gunners that they were charged by the enemy. Jackson, following up, carried the height on the left by an impetuous rush of Longstreet's and Whiting's divisions, capturing fourteen pieces of artillery; and the Union division under Morell, which held that wing, was driven back to the woods on the banks of the Chickahominy. Stonewall Jackson, in his official report of the battle of Gaines' Mill, gives the following spirited description of the decisive charge by Hood's and Law's brigades of Whiting's division, which resulted in carrying the fortified crest on the Union left: Dashing on with unfaltering step in face of those murderous discharges of canister and musketry, General Hood and Colonel Law, at the head of their respective brigades, rushed to the charge with a yell. Moving down a precipitous ravine, leaping ditch and stream, clambering up a difficult ascent, and exposed to an incessant and deadly fire from the intrenchments, these brave and determined men