"I knew if the army was to be saved these batteries must check the enemy.".

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"For unaccountable reasons the enemy did not pursue his advantage." Longstreet always spoke of his own men as invincible, and stated that on the 2d they did the best three hours' fighting that ever was done, but Crawford's* attack seemed to show that they too were shaken by the defeat of Picket's grand charge.
[* Crawford was also one of those who took a prominent part in the defence of Fort Sumter, at the beginning of the war.

We each commanded detachments of artillery on that occasion.] In regard to the great benefit we would have derived from a pursuit, it may not be out of place to give the opinion of a few more prominent Confederate officers.
Colonel Alexander, Chief of Longstreet's artillery, says in a communication to the "Southern Historical Papers": "I have always believed that the enemy here lost the greatest opportunity they ever had of routing Lee's army by a prompt offensive.
They occupied a line shaped somewhat like a horseshoe.