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| Keywords: outdoor drawing Gen Lew Wallace, whose troops were comparatively fresh, made the assault. Cruft's brigade, headed by the Eighth Missouri and the Eleventh Indiana, from Colonel Smith's division, with two Ohio regiments in reserve, formed the assailing column. Across the valley, or extended ravine, in Wallace's front, was a ridge which had been yielded. Up this ridge a charge was made. Before them lay an ascent of one hundred and fifty yards; and a lively bushwhacking followed between them and the Confederate pickets. When less than fifty yards had been gained they received a volley from the hilltop. Smith ordered his men to lie down; and when the heavy firing was exhausted they arose and pushed on up the hill, at last reaching the top. The fight and pursuit lasted for nearly two hours, and by five o'clock the enemy had entirely disappeared from the field. (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War..., edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) Gen Lew Wallace, whose troops were comparatively fresh, made the assault. Cruft's brigade, headed by the Eighth Missouri and the Eleventh Indiana, from Colonel Smith's division, with two Ohio regiments in reserve, formed the assailing column. Across the valley, or extended ravine, in Wallace's front, was a ridge which had been yielded. Up this ridge a charge was made. Before them lay an ascent of one hundred and fifty yards; and a lively bushwhacking followed between them and the Confederate pickets. When less than fifty yards had been gained they received a volley from the hilltop. Smith ordered his men to lie down; and when the heavy firing was exhausted they arose and pushed on up the hill, at last reaching the top. The fight and pursuit lasted for nearly two hours, and by five o'clock the enemy had entirely disappeared from the field. (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War..., edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) | ||||
