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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
nds grasp the rifle, it is easy to predict the result. Every assault met a bloody repulse. The promised artillery aid was not rendered: the few batteries used were beaten in detail. Instead of ordering up one or two hundred pieces of artillery to play on the Yankees, a single battery was ordered up and knocked to pieces in a few minutes; one or two others shared the same fate of being beaten in detail. The firing from our batteries was of the most farcical character.—Report of General D H. Hill: Reports of the Army of Northern Virginia, vol. i., p. 186. General Lee says: The obstacles presented by the woods and swamps made it Impracticable to bring up a sufficient amount of artillery to oppose successfully the extraordinary force of that arm employed by the enemy.—Ibid., p. 12 See also report of General Pendleton, Chief of Artillery, Ibid., p. 227. Afterwards, Magruder and Huger attacked, but it was without order or ensemble, a brigade, or even a regiment, being thrown forward at