"The whole line halted to deliver their fire, which they did so effectually that for a moment the firing of the battery ceased, and the battery began to fall back. Seeing the opportunity, Colonel Ruff ordered the charge, and rushing to the front, hat in hand, waved the boys onward, and, in less time than it takes to write it, nine pieces of the battery were theirs."

Lee, as I remember from Hood's memoirs, he had ordered the Texas Brigade to load but not fire during the advance, until ordered to do so, as stopping to reload would weaken the advance. When they did fire a volley, they went in with bayonets, I think in all the Brigade captured 14 guns, and several hundred prisoners. Stan