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Colonel Daniel Leasure, commanding the 100th Pennsylvania Infantry: “[T]he enemy were in a railroad cut not fifty paces in my front, but hidden by the smoke and dust. At that instant the fire reopened with great effect, and I ordered an advance...and springing in front of his company, with blazing face [Captain Vangorder] yelled out, ‘Company K, forward, double-quick, charge!’ and away they went, and the whole line moved forward with them until the cut was reached, and pouring in all the fire they had, the line charged and the cut was ours. In a few minutes we could see new troops forming on the heights in front of us...and down they came, three lines of battle deep....We now opened fire with all the force we could, and the enemy halted and returned our fire....But now our ammunition was nearly expended, and I gave the order to fall back, but waited till nearly all had gone, and then through the smoke and dust I saw the enemy coming down, in the same order of three lines of battle, and the front line was not over twenty-five yards distant across the cut....As soon as I started back they reached the cut, no doubt agreeably surprised to find only dead and wounded men in it.” -- From an address given by Colonel Leasure after the war before the Minnesota Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, in Glimpses of the Nation’s Struggles, pages 162-163
Brigadier General Jubal A. Early, brigade commander: “On reaching the railroad I found the enemy had posession of it and a piece of of woods in front, there being at this point a deep cut, which furnished a strong defense. General Gregg’s and Colonel Thomas’ brigades, of A. P. Hill’s Division, having nearly exhausted their ammunition, had fallen back a short distance, but were still presenting front to the enemy. My brigade and the Eighth Louisiana regiment advanced upon the enemy through a field and drove him from the woods and out of the railroad cut.” -- Early’s battle report, in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 12, part 2, page 712
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