Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3.
Henry Coppee , LL.D., Ed.

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[562] Eleventh corps, calls for his reserves, and sends one of the two brigades of Robinson's division, which has remained on the Seminary heights up to the present moment, to prolong this line on Cutler's right. These troops, under General Baxter's command, proceeded beyond the wood, and, following the ridge of the hill, reached the Mummasburg road at its culminating point despite the fire of the enemy's artillery. Rodes, who sees them thus advancing openly, deems the occasion favorable for driving them back, and hurls O'Neal's brigade upon their flank. But this body of troops, under bad management, and already shattered by the fire of Howard's two batteries, ventures, while in a disordered state, to attack the Federals, who, making a rapid change of front to the right, wait for it steadily behind a stone wall running parallel to the road. The Confederates are repulsed with heavy loss, and the remnants of O'Neal's brigade, thrown into the greatest confusion, find it very difficult to rally beyond reach of the Unionists' fire. Nevertheless, the movement of Rodes' right is accomplished, and Iverson comes in his turn to assail Cutler's and Baxter's positions from the west. If these manoeuvres had been less desultory and unconnected, the simultaneous attack of Rodes' troops would certainly have been crowned with success; but on this occasion he seems to have been very poorly supported by his subordinates. Baxter, who sees Iverson coming, has had time to face about to the left again, and he fortunately finds another wall perpendicular to the first, which affords his soldiers a solid protection. Doubleday, who is attentively watching the much-contested battlefield, sends him at this moment a timely reinforcement. By his order General Robinson pushes his second brigade, under General Paul, to the right, and takes a position with Baxter in the angle of the two walls. South of the Cashtown road Doubleday has maintained the positions conquered in the early part of the day on Willoughby Run. Meredith, covered on the left by Biddle, still occupies McPherson's wood, and Stone, more to the north, extends his lines as far as the Cashtown road; and, as his right at this point is placed at about two hundred and fifty yards in advance of Cutler's left, he has drawn up this right triangularly, or en potence, making it face Oak Hill. Cooper's battery, posted behind the ridge occupied by Meredith so as to enfilade the entire slopes of