By midday, as surviving members of the 8th New York streamed backward in panicked retreat, Confederates scrambled over the fence and pursued with the Rebel yell. Men of the 16th Mississippi who had manned this ground sprang to their feet, crossed the fence, advanced firing rapidly, and routed them instantly. Capt. James Nisbet of the 21st Georgia wrote that smoke and fog kept him from seeing the effect of the fire until he mounted the fence, where he saw the enemy in great confusion and then, at their line, the appalling sight of most of the 8th New York lying in the clover dead or wounded. Even Gen. Isaac Trimble, who despised the Federals, said their gallantry deserved a better fate. Forty-three of the Germans were captured, and though they spoke little English, some said they were eager to see the great "Shackson," Stonewall Jackson. After spotting Federals on the edge of the woods across the field, Trimble pulled his men back to the fence line and resumed his position on the hill because the enemy's rear regiments had halted in the wood on the other side of the valley. But seeing that the Federals were not disposed to renew the contest, he soon advanced again through the Good's Mill area, aiming to capture a Union battery on higher ground a half-mile ahead.