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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
ents of Cutler's brigade, on the Chambersburg road, causing them to retire behind a wood on Seminary Ridge. This left-hall's battery uncovered, and the gunners were compelled to retire, leaving one cannon behind. The skirmishers of Cutler's other two regiments (Fourteenth Brooklyn and Ninety-Fifth New York) were, at the same time, near the woods just spoken of, disputing the passage of Willoughby's Run. The iron brigade opportunely swept down in that direction, the Second Wisconsin, Colonel Fairchild, leading, and under the personal direction of Reynolds, struck Archer's John F. Reynolds. flank, captured that officer and eight hundred of his men, and re-formed on the west side of the little stream. At the moment when the charge was made, Reynolds was anxiously observing the movement, having dismounted at the corner of the wood, when the bullet of a sharpshooter pierced his neck. the Confederate sharpshooters had made a Stone barn, near the western side of Willoughby's Run, a