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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter XI (search)
al Meade, was done at first successfully; but these two divisions, said General Lee, resisted successfully repeated and desperate assaults made by a very superior force. Heth and Wilcox inflicted such serious injury on the attacking force that Wadsworth's division and Baxter's brigade of Warren's corps were hurried forward as reinforcements, but no advance was attempted, and night suspended hostilities. The next morning General Grant telegraphed to Halleck, So far, there is no decisive resulth greater intrepidity. At 5 a. m. of the 6th the enemy advanced, now reinforced by Burnside's corps. The attacks made by the Fifth and Sixth corps, said General Meade, were without any particular success. He claims that Hancock's corps, with Wadsworth's and Getty's divisions, forced Heth and Wilcox to fall back for a mile in confusion, and states that Longstreet's corps coming up, the tide of battle was turned and our victorious line was forced back. At the close of the day, Longstreet, wit