His men fought gallantly, and Gordon, who attacked them, says, made stern resistance until the rebels were within fifty paces of them.
As Barlow was shot down, and their right flank enveloped, they were forced to retreat to the town.

This isolated Von Amberg's brigade, and Doles claims to have captured the greater portion of it.
The retrograde movement of the Eleventh Corps necessarily exposed the right flank of the First to attacks from O'Neill and Ramseur.
Howard sent forward Coster's brigade, of Steinwehr's division, to cover the retreat of the Eleventh Corps; but its force was too small to be effective; its flanks were soon turned by Hays' and Hoke's brigades, of Early's division, and it was forced back with the rest.
We will now go back to the First Corps and describe what took place there while these events were transpiring.
When the wide interval between the First and Eleventh Corps was brought to my notice by Colonel Bankhead of my staff, I detached Baxter's brigade of Robinson's division to fill it.

This brigade moved promptly, and took post on Cutler's right, but before it could form across the intervening space, O'Neill's brigade assailed its right flank, and subsequently its left, and Baxter was forced to change front alternately, to meet these attacks.

He repulsed O'Neill, but found his left flank again exposed to an attack from Iverson, who was advancing in that direction.* He now went forward and took shelter behind a stone fence on the Mummasburg road, which protected his right flank, while an angle in the fence which turned in a southwesterly direction covered his front.

As his men lay down behind the fence, Iverson's brigade came very close up, not knowing our troops were there.