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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 2 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
he could see either the enemy's line or his own troops.... Never before or after, in the history of the Potomac army, was such an exhibition made of official incapacity or personal cowardice.... At the Mine two division commanders were hiding in bomb-proofs, while their troops wandered aimlessly from lack of direction or halted in front of obstacles which a single manly effort would have overcome. This unhappy day cost the Union army 4,000 men. （Walker's 2d Army Corps, pp. 567-568.) Maj. J. H. Powell, U. S. A., who was one of General Ledlie's staff at the Crater, says that he and all of them remained during the entire engagement in or near a bomb-proof within the Union lines. (Century War Book, IV, 550.) This talk and these orders, coming from a commander sitting in a bomb-proof inside the Union lines, was disgusting. (The same, p. 556.) With the notable exception of Gen. Robert B. Potter,— a Massachusetts man,—there was not a division commander in the crater or connecting lines,<