And there were more Germans, too, under Schurz--hired Germans, fighting nearly a hundred years before to prevent the Union--and free Germans now fighting to save it.
Driven forward thus by all the motives that sway men in battle, the Union army rushed upon Jackson.

Confident from many victories and trusting absolutely in their leader the Southern defense received the mighty charge without flinching.

The wood now swarmed with riflemen and they filled the air with their bullets, so many of them that their passage was like the continual rush of a hurricane.

Along the whole line came the same metallic scream, and the great battery in the center was a volcano, pouring forth a fiery hurricane of shot and shell.
Dick felt their front lines being shorn.

Although he was untouched it was an actual physical sensation.