General Sherman was at the Howard House, which was miles away from the scene of Hardee's attack in the rear, and evidently did not at first comprehend the terrific fighting that was in progress, and the serious results that would have been effected had the attack succeeded.
Dodge discusses General Sherman's initial misunderstanding of the battle's intensity and its potential consequences.
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CHARGE! and such a yell as they crossed that field with, you never heard--it was unearthly and scared the rebels so bad they never stopped to fire at us or to let us reach them.
We opened with thirty-two guns; they answered with as many, and such a roar you never heard.
I have heard of brave acts, but such determined pluck I never before dreamed of.
Colonel Dodge having discovered the enemy in the timber to the right, opened the First Iowa Battery on them, causing considerable execution; two rebels on horseback were seen to fall, and the rest fled.
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