Then we opened, with General Ewell himself in direct command there.

Old Jube Early had gone around to attack their other works, and we were waiting to hear the roaring of his guns.
"We gave it to 'em hot and heavy.

General Ewell was on foot--that is, one foot and a crutch--and you ought to have seen him hopping about among the falling cannon balls, watching and ordering everything.
Sunset was at hand, with Milroy fighting us back and not dreaming that Early was coming on his flank.

Then we heard Early's thunder.

In a few minutes his men stormed the fort on the hill next to him and turned its guns upon Milroy himself.
"It was now too dark to go much further with the fighting, and we waited until the next morning to finish the business.