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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Leading Confederates on the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
honor to fill at the battle of Gettysburg, I find myself compelled, for the first time since the war, to present myself in print. If my poor services on that sanguinary and trying field were of any value or of any merit, such as they were, I have the pride to wish to preserve the record of them as dear to me and to my my friends. Your obedient servant, J. B. Walton, Late Chief of Artillery, First Corps, A. N. V., Comd'g. Letter from General Longstreet. Gainesville Ga., November 6th, 1877. Colonel J. B. Walton, New Orleans: My dear sir: I find in my account of Gettysburg just published, ambiguous remarks about our artillery officers. The paragraph beginning Our artillery, etc., should read: On the 2d, Colonel Alexander's battalion being at the head of the column, he was ordered to assign the batteries to positions and to general supervision, pending the absence of Colonel Walton, chief of artillery. On the 3rd, Colonel Alexander being an officer of unusual prom