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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
, after an all-night march to relieve A. P. Hill. There is Tapp's field, said Major Biscoe. I was in Hill's Division, and we had fought through the 5th of May. I was lying down in that field on the morning of the 6th, when Longstreet's men came rushing over us on their way to meet the Union Army. As I came along with Longstreet, said Mr. Hume, the woods were all on fire. It was an awful sight. Both the dead and wounded were being burned. The woods were full of bodies. Yes, said Captain Quinn, we were charged with setting the woods on fire, but we did not do it. We tried hard to extinguish the flames, but it was impossible to do so. Every inch of the read was now full of historic interest. The point where Longstreet was wounded, where Jenkins was killed, and where General Wadsworth was fatally shot, were all pointed out. Then, a few minutes later, the party stood around a rough shaft of granite a hundred feet from the road. The stone stood upon some smaller rocks beneath