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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Defence of batteries Gregg and Whitworth, and the Evacuation of Petersburg. (search)
to me for a brigade, I being in charge of the lines from the run back to near Petersburg; but the firing increasing on my own front, and ,being probably heard and properly appreciated by him, he sent me the note below: Headquarters, &c., March 31, 1865. Gen. Wilcox, Commanding, &c. : Maj.-Gen. Heth directs me to say that you must not compromise your line. He wants the brigade sent for by Maj. Starke, but you must be the judge as to whether or not you can spare it. Respectfully, W. H. Palmer, Assist. Adjutant-General. This left me free to choose between two evils, each equally dangerous; we, Gen. Heth and myself, were too weak to support the one, the other, or to maintain our own line if attacked with force and spirit. The brigade was not sent. At this time I was holding a line three or four miles long, with Cooke's, Davis',--and McComb's brigades of Heth's division, and Lane's and Thomas' of my division; on parts of my line the men were in one thin line ten feet apart,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Defence of batteries Gregg and Whitworth, and the Evacuation of Petersburg. (search)
to me for a brigade, I being in charge of the lines from the run back to near Petersburg; but the firing increasing on my own front, and ,being probably heard and properly appreciated by him, he sent me the note below: Headquarters, &c., March 31, 1865. Gen. Wilcox, Commanding, &c. : Maj.-Gen. Heth directs me to say that you must not compromise your line. He wants the brigade sent for by Maj. Starke, but you must be the judge as to whether or not you can spare it. Respectfully, W. H. Palmer, Assist. Adjutant-General. This left me free to choose between two evils, each equally dangerous; we, Gen. Heth and myself, were too weak to support the one, the other, or to maintain our own line if attacked with force and spirit. The brigade was not sent. At this time I was holding a line three or four miles long, with Cooke's, Davis',--and McComb's brigades of Heth's division, and Lane's and Thomas' of my division; on parts of my line the men were in one thin line ten feet apart,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Defence of batteries Gregg and Whitworth, and the Evacuation of Petersburg. (search)
to me for a brigade, I being in charge of the lines from the run back to near Petersburg; but the firing increasing on my own front, and ,being probably heard and properly appreciated by him, he sent me the note below: Headquarters, &c., March 31, 1865. Gen. Wilcox, Commanding, &c. : Maj.-Gen. Heth directs me to say that you must not compromise your line. He wants the brigade sent for by Maj. Starke, but you must be the judge as to whether or not you can spare it. Respectfully, W. H. Palmer, Assist. Adjutant-General. This left me free to choose between two evils, each equally dangerous; we, Gen. Heth and myself, were too weak to support the one, the other, or to maintain our own line if attacked with force and spirit. The brigade was not sent. At this time I was holding a line three or four miles long, with Cooke's, Davis',--and McComb's brigades of Heth's division, and Lane's and Thomas' of my division; on parts of my line the men were in one thin line ten feet apart,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Defence of batteries Gregg and Whitworth, and the Evacuation of Petersburg. (search)
to me for a brigade, I being in charge of the lines from the run back to near Petersburg; but the firing increasing on my own front, and ,being probably heard and properly appreciated by him, he sent me the note below: Headquarters, &c., March 31, 1865. Gen. Wilcox, Commanding, &c. : Maj.-Gen. Heth directs me to say that you must not compromise your line. He wants the brigade sent for by Maj. Starke, but you must be the judge as to whether or not you can spare it. Respectfully, W. H. Palmer, Assist. Adjutant-General. This left me free to choose between two evils, each equally dangerous; we, Gen. Heth and myself, were too weak to support the one, the other, or to maintain our own line if attacked with force and spirit. The brigade was not sent. At this time I was holding a line three or four miles long, with Cooke's, Davis',--and McComb's brigades of Heth's division, and Lane's and Thomas' of my division; on parts of my line the men were in one thin line ten feet apart,