The Southern army could not withstand anywhere such ardor and such weight.

Position after position was lost, then there was no time to take a new stand, and the defeat became a rout.

Early's army which had come forward so gallantly in the morning was compelled to flee in disorder in the afternoon.
The brave Ramseur, fighting desperately, fell mortally wounded, Kershaw could save but a few men, Evans held a ford a little while, but he too was soon hurled from it.

The Invincibles were driven on with the rest, cannon and wagons were lost, and all but the core of Early's force ceased to exist.
The sun set upon the Union army in the camps that it had lost in the fog of the morning.

It had been driven five miles but had come back again.
It had recovered all its own guns, and had taken twenty-four belonging to the South.