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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 6 (search)
ded the march through Maryland, that Jackson's old (Stonewall) division numbered but one thousand six hundred men. General J. R. Jones, who commanded this division at Antietam, says of it: The division was reduced to the numbers of a small brigade, e of comparative ease, for it left on that entire wing but a single hostile division of twenty-five hundred men under General Jones, and the force actually present to dispute the passage of the bridge did not exceed four hundred. These statements, surprising though they may seem, are not made at random, but rest on a sure basis of official evidence. General Jones, who commanded the entire right, says: When it is known that on that morning my whole command of six brigades, comprised only twars, however, from Toombs' Report (Ibid., p. 325), that his brigade also aided in this counter-attack. with the troops of Jones that had been broken through in the attack, he assumed the offensive, recaptured the battery, and drove back Burnside ove