Only the Virginians kept unbroken ranks and a straight course for the Union center.
Pickett paused a few moments at the burning house for the others to get in touch with him, but they could not do so, and he marched on, with Cemetery Hill now only two hundred yards away.

The covering fire of the Southern cannon had ceased long since.

It would have been as dangerous now to friend as to foe.

Harry, watching through his glasses, uttered another cry.

Pickett and his men were marching alone at the hill.
Half of them it seemed to him were gone already, but the other half never paused.