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� 175 About four o'clock the engagement was proceeding warmly on our left and somewhat to our rear. News came that Genls Robinson and Berry had just charged the enemy and repulsed them. Our men gave hearty cheers.
Afterward intelligence came that the enemy was pressing us back on the left. The general sent me to Genl. Heintzleman to ask permission to attempt a flank movement and thus relieve Kearney + Hooker. "By all means" -- "By all means" says the veteran soldier. The Jersey brigade and Bartlett's were ordered to undertake this the former being put under charge of Kearney himself. How Sturges' eye glistened when I told him.
But they were not needed. Sedgwick was ahead of us and engaged the enemy before we