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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gordon's assault on Fort Stedman, [from the New Orleans Picayune, October 25, 1903.] (search)
safety. One morning in March, 1865, General Jonn B. Gordon, my corps commander, requested me to rs position through our field glasses, when General Gordon turned to me and very carelessly inquired ront line any morning before breakfast. General Gordon smiled and remarked: Don't you forget whatwhether it would be adopted. A few days later Gordon sent for his three division commanders and infspense, but the suspense was relieved when General Gordon came down the line to where the head of myned but to withdraw to our breastworks. General Gordon seemed 10th to give up his cherished plansrate diseases require desperate remedies. General Gordon conceived the bold and hazardous plan of s the Confederate troops in front of them. General Gordon was to attack them on the exposed right, fJackson and reflects the highest credit on General Gordon, and, if his force had been sufficient to t mortal men could do. After the failure of Gordon's movement we all felt that our cause was hope
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)
d Grigsby on Sedgwick, after whose defeat, I might say rout, there was no more fighting on that portion of the line. Grigsby's handful of men—men of Jackson's old division, who had been through the Valley campaign, the Seven Days battles around Richmond, Cedar Mountain and Second Manassas, and had suffered severely in all, and who had already fought for several hours that morning, would never have been sent to the rear to recruit if there had been further need for them in front, but, as General Gordon said of his corps at Appomattox, they had been fought to a frazzle. General J. R. Jones, commanding Jackson's old division on the morning of September 17, reports this division of four brigades as not numbering over 1,600 men at the beginning of the fight, and its casualties as about 700 killed and wounded (War Records, Volume XIX, Part 1, page 1008). This is a very heavy loss-nearly 50 per cent., of which Taliaferro's and Starke's brigades suffered most when Starke led them forward t