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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 20: battle of the Wilderness (search)
out 10 A. M., he reported it to Longstreet. Four brigades were promptly formed for a flank attack to be conducted by Col. Sorrel, Longstreet's Adj.-Gen. They were G. B. Anderson of Field's division, Wofford of Kershaw's, Mahone of Anderson's (R. H force, which included Jenkins's large brigade and four others of Anderson's division, which had not yet fired a shot. Sorrel moved the four brigades by the flank to the unfinished railroad, where they faced to the left, and, about 11 A. M., they the morning in a supreme effort to follow up the fugitives, and to drive them into the Rapidan. When Smith had directed Sorrel's column on its turning expedition, he had been given a small party and directed to find a way across the Brock road whic, where he had been chief engineer. He was a native of N. Y. and a graduate of West Point of the class of 1838. When Sorrel's flanking brigades reached the Plank road, some crossing in the attack and pursuit of Wadsworth, and some in line, a lit