franz siegel's attack was end near 10:00 a.m. on the morning of the 29th, not altderring the tekt cal situation on the field at all. jackson's line had held. and jackson's units went on the offensive following these federal charges. but siegel would not give up. with the arrival of kerrny's division, general shursz would order his brig aids to assault. the it was recalled of the attack, at this point a heavy shower of grapeshot and cannister pouring into us, we withdrew to the railroad dam. general shurz was under the believe that kerrny would advance with him, but he had failed to do so. as we begin to explore the early attacks against jackson's line at second manassas, one of the things that i hope is beginning to stick out about the federal plan is that each and every time these units going in, are going on on their own hook. jackson's line in its entirely has yet to be pressed to the full federal advantage in numbers. >>> but why had general concerny failed to advance? franz siegel's assaults from shurz's brigade to millroy a

will green conjectures that carney possibly indulged in a bitter grudge that he nurtured against franz siegel. perhaps we'll never know. we'll never know carney's exact reasons for not advancing that morning. what we do know, however, is that lack of the forward movement in conjunction with the support of siegel's men had allowed jackson's line to defeat those piecemeal attacks. it is also left jackson's defense untested against equal or higher numbers numerically. by the afternoon of august 29th, general pope had arrived on the field to further coordinate the offensive attacks against jackson's line. pope's further orders for the day were continued frontal assaults against jackson's line. these were all to serve as a diversion until general porter arrived on the right and rear. pope would not yield to the notion that longstreet and lee had arrived to the battlefield and now occupied the very front that porter was supposed to push through to get to jackson. despite pope's delusional miscalculation regarding port er's -- further assaults tested just how strong jackson's defensive line really w