Gibbon was not so fortunate in his front.

He found the ground over which he had to pass cut up with deep ravines, and a morass difficult to cross.

But his men struggled on until some of them got up to the very parapet covering the enemy.
Gibbon gained ground much nearer the enemy than that which he left, and here he intrenched and held fast.
Wright's corps moving in two lines captured the outer rifle-pits in their front, but accomplished nothing more.

Smith's corps also gained the outer rifle-pits in its front.

The ground over which this corps (18th) had to move was the most exposed of any over which charges were made.