None of them had ever been under fire or beheld heavy columns of an enemy bearing down on them as they did on last Sunday.
To expect of them the coolness and steadiness of older troops would be wrong.

They knew not the value of combination and organization.
When individual fears seized them, the first impulse was to get away.

My third brigade did break much too soon, and I am not yet advised where they were during Sunday afternoon and Monday morning.
Colonel Hildebrand, its commander, was as cool as any man I ever saw, and no one could have made stronger efforts to hold his men to their places than he did.

He kept his own regiment with individual exceptions in hand, an hour after Appler's and Mungen's regiments had left their proper field of action.

Colonel Buckland managed his brigade well.