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The Daily Dispatch: June 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
were thinned — thinned terribly; but a few brave men stood there for their country, and kept their places. Where was Birney? Birney's brigade, of Kearney's division, when Birney advanced, had been ordered to advance by the railroad in full time to have reached this point of our hardest fight. Had he reached it, his fresh troops, poured in after the hard fight already made, must have turned the tide, and the enemy would have been routed then. But he did not reach it. He halted. Patterson's brigade, ordered in to Birney's left, went through the swampy woods and almost impassable thicket, and pushed on still, while Birney, with a fair, dry road, and the fight not a mile away, halted and sat down. Our men ordered back — they keep in good order. It is not certain that our men would not still have held the point, but now they were ordered to fall back, and fell back, rallying and forming as they went, so that they gave ground and kept their order. The fight in that pa