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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Maryland. (search)
ctions to that effect previous to the Peninsula campaign; he did not even furnish the necessary tools to improvise parapets, but contented himself with leaving Colonel Ford with two or three thousand men in the place without any directions. Construing Halleck's orders literally, he obstinately shut himself up in the village of Hoon gave way to a disgraceful panic and fled toward the lower echelon, abandoning to the enemy the position which they could have indefinitely defended with ease. Ford tried in vain to recapture it; his soldiers were unable to climb the acclivities, which their comrades had descended so rapidly, under the enemy's fire. He nevertnd Heights were spontaneously abandoned by their defenders. During the night of the 13th-14th, while McLaws' movement was being counter-ordered from headquarters, Ford was bringing back his troops to Harper's Ferry, astonished and mortified at so fatal a retreat. The greatest portion of the 14th, however, passed without any atte