...been made prior to the visit of Generals Hooker and Comstock, for General Sickles's corps had already replaced General Slocum's on my left and certainly General Hooker would not have sent away all of Sickles 's corps and all of my general reserve on the very day of the battle, if he had deemed those masses necessary for the strengthening of his right flank. Neither the commander, the War Department, n...