"I can see them advancing in great columns against our right and center.

Now their artillery opens!" Dick put up his glasses and he, too, saw the mighty Southern army advancing.

Their guns were already clearing the way for the advance, and the valleys echoed with the great concussion.

Longstreet and Hill, anxious to show what the veterans of the East could do, were pouring them forward alive with all the fire and courage that had distinguished them in the Army of Northern Virginia.
The battle swelled fast.

It seemed to the waiting veterans of Thomas that it had burst forth suddenly like a volcano.