No order to fall back came, and no order to do was assumed the Irish Brigade was left to be sacrificed between the fire of the enemy from the front and flanks and the fire of our own troops, afraid to advance from the rear.”Ĭaptain John Donovan, 69th New York, Meagher’s Irish Brigade ![]() It was impossible for human nature to withstand this, and yet we were left here all the afternoon unrelieved. We have not a single piece of artillery to support us, and yet we stand against shot and shell, grape and canister, Minnie and conical balls, to fight a formidable enemy, artillery and infantry posted behind stone walls and fortifications, with buck and ball fired from Harper’s Ferry muskets. ![]() ![]() “We gain the second fence, within sixty yards of the enemy’s batteries, and are met by a most disastrous enfilade and direct fire from the rebel artillery and infantry.
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