Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.
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Towards four o’clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.
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Birth: | 10th April, 1835 |
Death: | 12th November, 1900 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Journalist |
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Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard was born in Speyer, Germany. He was an American journalist and financier who was an early president of the Northern Pacific Railway. He reported the Lincoln–Douglas debates for eastern newspapers and the Pikes Peak gold rush for the Cincinnati Daily Commercial. During the Civil War he was a war correspondent, first for The New York Herald and then for the New York Tribune. In 1881 he purchased The Nation and the New York Evening Post.
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