hotter, perhaps may!" A most willing mind is in these Prussians of
Schwerin's: fatigue of over-marching has tired the muscles of them;
but their hearts,--all witnesses say, these (and through these,
their very muscles, "always fresh again, after a few minutes of
breathing-time") were beyond comparison, this day!

Schwerin's Prussians, as they "march up" (that is, as they front
and advance upon the Austrians), are everywhere saluted by case-
shot, from Homoly Hill and the batteries northward of Homoly;
but march on, this main line of them, finely regardless of it or of
Winterfeld's disaster by it. The general Prussian Order this day
is: "By push of bayonet; no firing, none, at any rate, till you see
the whites of their eyes!" Swift, steady as on the parade-ground,
swiftly making up their gaps again, the Prussians advance, on these
terms; and are now near those "fine sleek pasture-grounds,
unusually green for the season." Figure the actual stepping upon
these "fine pasture-grounds:"--mud-tanks, verdant with mere
"bearding oat-crop" sown there as carp-provender! Figure the
sinking of whole regiments to the knee; to the middle, some of
them; the steady march become a wild sprawl through viscous mud,
mere case-shot singing round you, tearing you away at its ease!
Even on those terrible terms, the Prussians, by dams, by footpaths,
sometimes one man abreast, sprawl steadily forward, trailing their
cannon with them; only a few regiments, in the footpath parts,
cannot bring their cannon. Forward; rank again, when the ground
will carry; ever forward, the case-shot getting ever more
murderous! No human pen can describe the deadly chaos which ensued
in that quarter. Which lasted, in desperate fury, issue dubious,
for above three hours; and was the crisis, or essential agony, of
the Battle. Foot-chargings, (once the mud-transit was