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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 12: Boonsboro or South Mountain, and Harper's Ferry (search)
enemy. At 8 A. M. our battery officers report their ammunition exhausted. Gen. White meets Col. Miles on the crest of heights and consults. . . . The white flag iblanket, and, obtaining six men, dragged him to an ambulance and sent word to Gen. White. Col. Miles only survived for a day. A military commission which reportedre into the enemy. The white flag was now displayed, and, shortly afterward, Gen. White (the commanding officer, Col. D. S. Miles having been mortally wounded), withery, some 13,000 small-arms, and other stores. Liberal terms were granted to Gen. White and the officers under his command in the surrender, which, I regret to say, reports contain two documents which may explain. The first is a letter from Gen. White to Gen. D. Tyler at Annapolis, as follows: O. R. 27, 801. — general: to forward them back. Tyler, however, instead of returning them, forwarded White's letter to Halleck's office, calling it a strange arrangement, and asks shall