Then they heard the order to charge and far up and down the line their own cannon opened with a crash so great that Dick and his comrades could not hear one another talking.
Then they charged.

The whole army lifted itself up and rushed at the enemy, animated by patriotism, the fire of battle and the desire for revenge.

Among the officers were Milroy and Schenck and others who had been beaten by Jackson in the valley.

There, too, was the brigade of Germans whom Jackson had beaten at Cross Keyes.

Many of them were veterans of the sternest discipline known in Europe and they longed fiercely for revenge.