Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4.
Henry Coppee , LL.D., Ed.

It is four o'clock, and a critical moment, for Stewart cannot allow his adversaries time to recover. Clayton's soldiers, witnessing the flight of the enemy who had caused them such painful losses, return to the battle with fresh ardor. They soon form on the left of Bate, whose front inclines more and more to the right. Brown, who closely follows, aligns with them, but is checked by the fire from Hazen, who, resting his left against the McManus house, has made a quarter-wheel forward to his right, so as to command with an oblique fire the approaches to the road. On the other side, to the north of the Brotherton house, Bate comes in conflict with Grose's and King's troops, who receive his shock in good order and repulse his right after a very sharp contest. But during that time Bate's left, following up Van Cleve's soldiers, has entered the space lying between Reynolds and Hazen. Wilder's cavalry, which alone occupies this gap, is dispersed: the Confederates reach the road and proceed beyond it. They are masters of the long line against which the Federals have rested throughout the battle, drive them into the woods to the west of Brotherton's farm, and pick up a few pieces of artillery, with many prisoners. Availing themselves of this success, Bate and Clayton throw themselves forward, the one to the right, the other to the left, to double the rear of the two fragments of the enemy's line which they have just broken. Vainly do Grose and Hazen arrange their lines in the form of a T to resist Bate and Clayton. The Union army would infallibly have been cut in two if the artillery which had remained on the road instead of being, as the victors hoped, an easy prey, had not become for the Federals a supreme instrument of rescue. Reynolds has seen the danger to which are exposed his cannon posted rather distant from any support. He rallies a part of Van Cleve's men, and forms a nucleus which rapidly increases, so that when the Confederates spring forward to attack the opposing lines, the fourteen pieces, supported by musketry, receive them with a deadly fire, before which they fall back. This rough lesson is not enough for the Confederates. Unable to approach the enemy's artillery in