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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 6.34 (search)
f assault. Ib., p. 243. Ledlie was to push through the breach straight to Cemetery Hill. Wilcox was to follow, and, after passing the breach, deploy on the left of the leading division and seiank back aghast, and nearly ten minutes elapsed ere it could be reformed. Statement of General O. B. Wilcox, U. S. A.--Report on the Conduct of the War (1865), vol. i, p. 79; Burnside's testimony-rt in the dreadful chorus. On the Federal side, Griffin of Potter's division, not waiting for Wilcox, pushed forward his brigade, and gained ground to the north of the Crater, and Bliss' brigade ofd mingling with Ledlie's men swarming along the sides of the great pit, added to the confusion. Wilcox now threw forward a portion of his division and succeeded in occupying about one hundred and fifn arrows at Hastings. At half-past 10, the Georgia brigade advanced and attempted to dislodge Wilcox's men, who still held a portion of the lines south of the Crater, but so closely was every inch