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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 4 (search)
is prisoners with him. 11 P. M. Grant in consultation with Meade. Wright came up also; he uttered no complaints, but said quietly and firmly to Meade: General, I don't want Mott's men on my left; they are not a support; I would rather have no troops there! Warren is not up to a corps command. As in the Mine Run move, so here, he cannot spread him-self over three divisions. He cannot do it, and the result is partial and ill-concerted and dilatory movements. --Lyman's Journal. . . . May 12, 1864 This was the date of one of the most fearful combats, which lasted along one limited line, and in one spot, more than fourteen hours, without cessation. I fancy this war has furnished no parallel to the desperation shown here by both parties. It must be called, I suppose, the taking of the Salient. Hancock was ordered to attack with his corps as soon after four in the morning as possible and Burnside was to follow the example. A little after daylight we were all gathered round Ge