The retreating artillery was posted anew.
Jackson galloped back and forth on Little Sorrel.

Everywhere his courage and presence of mind brought the men back from despair to hope.

Once anew was proved the truth of Napoleon's famous maxim that men are nothing, a man everything.

The soldiers on the Northern side were as brave as those on the Southern but they were not led by one of those flashing spirits of war which emerge but seldom in the ages, men who in all the turmoil and confusion of battle can see what ought to be done and who do it.
The beaten Southern army, but a few thousands, now was formed anew for a last stand.

A portion of them seized a stone fence, and others took position in thick timber.