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Just before sunset, General James Longstreet received orders to attack, and his regiments moved forward across an open field almost as if on dress parade. Union gunners found their range, and exploding shells tore huge gaps in the Confederate lines. When the charging Confederates reached the ground above the creek, 8,000 men under General George W. Morell fired volley after volley but failed to stop them. Moments after Hood penetrated the Union line, these Confederates splashed through the creek and charged the Federal position. Northern soldiers broke ranks and fled to the rear, while the men of General Daniel Butterfield’s brigade fought for their lives along these slopes.
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