Yet the Northern artillery continued to pour a terrible fire through the smoke toward the point where the Confederate infantry had been posted.
Dick heard at the same time a tremendous roar on the left, and he knew that the Union batteries beyond the Antietam had opened a flanking fire on the Southern army.

He breathed a sigh of triumph.

McClellan, who could organize and prepare so well, was aroused at last to such a point that he could concentrate his full strength in battle itself, and push home with all his might until able to snatch the reward, victory.

As the lad heard the supporting guns across the Antietam, he suddenly found himself shouting with all his might.

His voice could not be heard in the uproar, but he saw that the lips of those about him were moving in like manner.
The two corps on the peninsula had a good leader that morning.