He must have shed tears then, because afterward he found furrows in the mud and burned gunpowder on his face.

The combat now was not for victory, but for existence.

The Southerners fought to preserve the semblance of an army, and it was well for them that they were valiant Virginians led by a great genius, and dauntless officers.
Stonewall Jackson, in this the only defeat he ever sustained in independent command, never lost his head for a moment.

By gigantic exertions he formed a new line at last.

The fresher troops covered the shattered regiments.