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to take the crest? he asks, I understand not a man has advanced beyond the enemy's line which you occupied immediately after exploding the mine. Do you mean to say your officers and men will not obey your orders to advance? If not, what is the obstacle? I wish to know the truth, and desire an immediate answer. George G. Meade, Major-General. To which Burnside, in hot wrath, straight-way replied: headquarters Ninth corps, 7.35 A. M. General Meade: Your dispatch by Captain Jay received. The main body of General Potter's division is beyond the Crater. I do not mean to say that my officers and men will not obey my orders to advance. I mean to say that it is very hard to advance to the crest. I have never in any report said anything different from what I conceived to be the truth. Were it not insubordinate, I would say that the latter remark of your note was unofficerlike and ungentlemanly. A. E. Burnside, Major-General. Griffin, it is true, in obedien