[The Star of Gettysburg by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Star of Gettysburg CHAPTER IX 47/91
Both the colonels were bleeding from slight wounds, but with fire equal to that of any youth they were still at the head of their troops, leading them straight toward the Union center. Harry only had time to glance at his friends and receive their glances in return, and then he found Jackson again.
Catching one of the riderless horses, so numerous, he sprang upon him and rode close behind his general, where Dalton, a slight bullet wound in the arm, had been able to remain through all the confusion. Now the Southern troops were crashing through the woods and bearing down upon the Chancellor House.
The blaze of the cannon and rifles lit up the early night, and the crash and tumult around the place became indescribable.
Many a Northern officer thought that all was lost, but the trained artillerymen of the North never flinched.
Occupying an eminence, battery after battery was wheeled into line, until fifty cannon manned by the best gunners in the world were pouring an awful fire upon the Southern front.
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