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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the army of Tennessee. (search)
emains with the army to get at the exact truth, however industrious and conscientious he may be; so difficult, indeed, that I have come to the conclusion that there is very little truth in history. The prejudices, partialities, interests, and passions of men obscure the truth just as the clouds and mists shut out the sun and hide him from our gaze. An example in point refurnished by the late battle, where some one brigade was the first to yield; and yet, but for the candid admission of Gen. Anderson, who is as truthful as he is chivalrous, that his own brigade (heretofore considered one of the most, if not the most gallant in the whole army) was the first to retire, the vexed question would still remain unsettled; for when one goes to the officers and men of the brigade themselves he finds that every one of them can point to others which gave way before his own did. If it be so difficult to winnow the wheat from the chaff here in the army, how can a fugitive from the field, "an inte