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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Hagood's brigade: its services in the trenches of Petersburg, Virginia, 1864. (search)
of the entire success of the plan is the facility with which an unsupported line of skirmishers got possession of those lines, with a loss of only twenty-five killed and seventy-two wounded. I am decidedly of opinion that, regard being had to locality and attending circumstances, no better results could have been obtained than by the plan adopted, and which failed only because not properly supported. G. T. Beauregard, General. Headquarters Department North Carolina and South Carolina, 5th July, 1864. Thus failed a brilliant design which might have given a different complexion to the history of this famous siege. The reports given are the only official papers in connection with it that have come to the knowledge of the writer. No court of inquiry was held. So carefully was the knowledge of the intended movement guarded, and so completely did it fail in the very beginning of its execution, that its purpose appeared at the time not to have been suspected by either army, and to t