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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Longstreet-Gettysburg controversy [from the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, February 16, 1896.] (search)
pated in the battle, so far as I have been able to ascertain, was made by General Longstreet in Swinton's Army of the Potomac, which was published in the spring of 1866. In this book (page 340) SwSwinton says, and gives Longstreet as his authority for the statement: Indeed, in entering upon this campaign, General Lee expressly promised his corps-commanders that he would not assume a tactical oflost that equipoise in which his faculties commonly moved, and he determined to give battle. Swinton then proceeds to criticise Lee very severely for not manoeuvring Meade out of the Gettysburg poon Lee were not replied to by the latter, though it is within my personal knowledge that he had Swinton's book and read at least a portion of it, and none of Lee's subordinates thought proper to make the prompt and cheerful execution of his orders by his subordinates, General Early said: If Mr. Swinton has told the truth in repeating in his book what is alleged to have been said to him by Gener