"Our thin line was broken and the enemy were in our rear of the whole round top defense," he says. "I saw the faces of my men one after another when they had fired their last cartridge turn anxiously toward mine for a moment, then square to the front again." He adds: "My thought was running deep. I was combining the elements of a forlorn hope ... It just communicated this to Captain Spear of the wheeling flank on which the initiative was to fall"