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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 29 (search)
sion lad been sent into the woods to support the Eighth, but was withdrawn before the Eighth got out. Negley had found his brigades in echelon, and seeing the critical nature of his position, he was obliged to order a retrograde movement. But even after that the Nineteenth Illinois and Eleventh Michigan made another dash to the front, driving the enemy again, then wheeling abruptly, pushed steadily out of the cedars. Rousseau, one of the most magnificent men on the field, with the port of Ajax and the fire of Achilles — no wonder his gallant lads adore him — did not fancy this retrograde movement. The regulars, Twenty-fifth, Sixteenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth, under Col. Shepherd, on his right, liked it no better. Youthful Beatty, Third Ohio, commanding the Seventeenth brigade, and Scribner with the Ninth, were also in ill-humor about it, but there was no help for it. After debouching from the cedars, Loomis and Guenther could find no good position at hand for their batteries,