"If we're held here in these swamps and thickets any longer the Johnnies can shoot us down at their leisure." "But we won't be held!" exclaimed Pennington.

"Look! One of our brigades is through, and it's charging the enemy on the right!" It was Hovey who had forced his way through a thicket, supposed to be impenetrable, and who now, with a full brigade behind him, was rushing upon Bowen's flank.

Then, while the Southern defense was diverted to this new attack, the Winchester and the Ohio regiment attacked in front, shouting with triumph.
Hovey's rush was overpowering.

He drove in the Southern flank, taking four cannon and hundreds of prisoners, but the dauntless Confederate commander, withdrawing his men in perfect order, retreated to a second ridge, where he took up a stronger position than the first.
Resolute and dangerous, the men in gray turned their faces anew to the enemy and sent back a withering fire that burned away the front ranks of the Union army.

Osterhaus, in spite of every effort, was driven back, and the Winchesters and their Ohio friends were compelled to give ground too.