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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.33 (search)
es were heavy in this assault in killed and wounded. The Sixth corps attacked at the same time with us on their right, with the same result. General Frances C. Barlow, page 369 of Records, says: Attacked the enemy's left May 18th. General John R. Brooke, Barlow's division, of Hancock's corps, page 411 of Records, says: At 10 A. M. moved forward in support of Second and Third brigades, which were ordered to attack the enemy. Occupied the position taken on the 12th, and remained there. Ndoubt, but the task was impossible and they did all that brave men could do. Some of the finest officers in the Federal Army were there in that assault, many since distinguished in both military and civil life– Lieutenant-General Miles, Major-General Brooke, Governor Hartranft, and others were there. There should be no reflection on these brave men, though in greater numbers, any more than on Pickett's men in a similar effort at Gettysburg. The recital of this engagement brings out prom