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Though his charger never broke out of the slow pace that had given its master the nick- name of "Old Trot, " Thomas was apparently in all places at once, now directing the firing to repulse a charge, now placing a regiment in line, and again marking a point to which his troops must retire and take up the fight anew. The Confederate infantry now pressed for- ward in a frenzy of enthusiasm. The piercing "rebel yell" rose triumphantly above the roar of cannon and the bark of musketry, and many reg...i- STONE'S RIVER 51 ments pressed clear to the borders of the cedars in which the Union troops were posted, before they had to retire from a merciless fire. Again and again Hardee and Cheatham brought their men to the charge. The exigencies of the battle twisted the Union line into strange shapes. Here a brigade was in a half-circle with a concave side to the enemy; another presented a convex front to attack. Miller's brigade of Neg- ley's division was like a triangle without the base, and, aided by splendid artillery service, repulsed simultaneously assaults in front and on both sides.
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