His calm and composure in the face of disaster always inspired his men with fresh courage.
"Ride back to General Archer," he said, "and tell him that the division of Early and the Stonewall Brigade are coming at once." He turned his horse as if he would go with the relief, but in a moment he checked himself, put his field glasses back to his eyes, and continued to watch heavy masses of the enemy who were coming up in another quarter.
Harry did not see what happened when Early and Taliaferro, who now led the Stonewall Brigade, fell upon the Pennsylvanians, but the Invincibles were in the charge and St.Clair told him about it afterward.

The Union men had penetrated so far that they were entangled in the forest and thickets, and nobody had come up to support them.

They were much scattered, and as their officers were seeking to gather them together the men in gray fell upon them in overpowering force and drove them back in broken fragments.

Wild with triumph, the Southern riflemen rushed after them and also hurled back other riflemen that were coming up to their support.

But on the plain they encountered the matchless Northern artillery.