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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 20: battle of the Wilderness (search)
well, Early EarlyHaysPegramGordonJohnstonLong 70 Guns JohnsonWalker, Jr.SteuartJonesStafford RodesDanielRamseurDolesBattle 3D corps. Hill Anderson, R. H.PerrinMahoneHarrisWrightWalker, L. Persion, the overlapping part which entered the woods beyond our extreme right about dusk, ran into Rodes's division of Ewell's corps, just arriving on the field, after an all-day march from the Wilderness, nearly exhausted by the heat, dust, and the smoke of the fires still burning there. Rodes promptly drove Crawford back to his place in the Federal line, and then forming his division on the rigard with eyes on the ground they were traversing. The attack fell upon Doles's Ga. brigade of Rodes's division, and Upton thus describes how the charge was met:— Here occurred a deadly hand-to 9th corps, and Early's advance was checked. The fighting lasted until night, and Gen. Doles of Rodes's division, a very valuable officer, was killed. Had Early had enough men to give his movement
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