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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 6 (search)
Who took Rocky Face Ridge?--Lieutenant R. C. Powns, of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio regiment, writing from Dallas, Georgia, May nineteenth, 1864, made the following communication to the Louisville Journal:
In your issue of the twenty-first instant, there is a communication from your army correspondent, A. J. Daugherty, which gives an account of the battle of Rocky Face Ridge.
The hazardous undertaking of driving the enemy from that almost inaccessible stronghold is credited to General Willich, who is represented to have ascended to the summit, and asked permission to march steadily forward toward the Gap.
I do not know on what authority the statement was made, but surely the impression it is intended to convey is far from the truth.
General Willich took no part in driving the enemy from Rocky Face; and that he should have asked permission to march steadily forward toward the Gap after the battle had been fought and the danger past, is complimentary neither to his