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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.67 (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The battle of Stone's River . (search)
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The Union left at Stone's River. by Thomas L. Crittenden, Major-General, U. S. V.
The battle of Stone's River, Tennessee, on the 31st of December, 1862, and the 2d of January, 1863, was one of the most fiercely contested and bloody conflicts of the war. The two armies that met in this conflict were made up of soldiers who, for the most part, had been disciplined by capable instructors and hardened by service in the field, both having made many long marches, and neither having been strangers to the perils of the battle-field.
Moreover, these armies were ably commanded by graduates of the Military Academy at West Point — a military school, I think, not surpassed, if equaled, anywhere else.
The duration of the battle, and the long list of the killed and wounded, show the stuff of which the two armies were composed.
I do not think that two better armies, as numerous and so nearly matched in strength, ever met in battle.
I had the good fortune to command the left wing of our army