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...McClernand's previous assaults. Baldwin's brigade, leaving the intrenchments at 6 A. M. , marched by theright flank out a narrow and obstructed byroad, crossed the valley infront of the works, and, while ascending the slope beyond, encounteredwhat they supposed to be a line of pickets. But Oglesby's hungry men hadslept little that cold night, and by simply rising to their feet were inline of battle. Baldwin's brigade, in attempting to deploy, was throwninto confusion, repeatedly rallied, and was thrown into disorder andpushed back before its line was established. Colonel Baldwin, in hisreport, says that deployment forward into line would have brought hismen into such an exposed situation that he threw his regiment first intocolumn of company, then deployed on the right into line, and admits thatpractising tactics with new troops under fire is a different thing frompractice on the drill-ground. The movement that Colonel Baldwinattempted with his leading regiment, the Twenty-sixth...