"The Federals now held the crater and the inner line.
Generals Lee and Mahone arrived on the field about 7:30 A.
M. A ravine, which deepened on our right, ran parallel with
this inner line and was used by Mahone in which to form his
brigade when preparing to attack. At 8 A. M. Mahone's
Brigade, commanded by Colonel D. A. Weisiger, brought from
the right of Hoke's Division, was formed in this ravine and
advanced to the assault. The Federals, concentrating a
terrific fire of musketry and artillery, ploughed out great
gaps in these fearless Virginians. Nothing daunted, they
pressed forward and recaptured the inner line. The loss of
this brigade was heavy, both in men and officers, more than
two hundred Virginians falling between the ravine and the
captured works. The Federal troops, white and colored,
fought with a desperation never witnessed on former
battle-fields. The negroes, it is said, cried 'No quarter.'
Mahone and Wright's Brigades took only twenty-nine of them
prisoners. The Federals still held the crater and part of
the line. Another charge was necessary and Wright's Georgia
Brigade was ordered up from Anderson's Division. Wright's
Brigade, forming in the ravine, moved forward to drive the
Federals from the line they still held. The enemy, expecting
their attack, poured a volley into the Georgians that
decimated their ranks, killing and wounding nearly every
field officer in the brigade. The men rushing forward,
breasting a storm of lead and iron, failed to oblique far
enough to the right to recapture the whole line, but gained
the line occupied by and contiguous to the line already
captured by Weisiger, commanding Mahone's Brigade. Mahone's
Brigade and Wright's Brigade had captured forty-two
officers, three hundred and ninety men and twenty-nine
negroes.

"It was now about 10 A. M. General Grant made no effort to
reinforce his line or to dislodge Wright and Mahone from the
positions they held. A courier dashed up to General J. C. C.
Sanders, commanding Wilcox's Brigade, informing him that his
brigade was wanted. The men were expecting this courier, as
they were next in line, and they distinctly heard the shouts
of Mahone's and Wright's men, followed by the heavy
artillery firing, while the word had passed dow