The whole Stonewall brigade, the Acadians and other regiments making a formidable force, moved to the left and charged.

Gordon, Banks' able assistant, threw in fresh troops to meet the Southern rush, and they fired almost point blank in the faces of the men in gray.

Harry, riding forward with the eager Jackson, saw many fall, but the Southern charge was not checked for a moment.

The men, firing their rifles, leaped the stone fences and charged home with the bayonet.

The Northern regiments were driven back in disorder and their cavalry sweeping down to protect them, were met by such a sleet of bullets that they, too, were driven back.
Now all the Southern regiments came up.