Without Any Formal Orders To Retreat, What Was Left Of The Several Organizations Yielded To A General Impulse To Abandon The Field. Officers And Men Became Controlled By The One Thought Of Getting As Far As Possible From The Enemy. - SearchQuotes

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Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

Henry Villard

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