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I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

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General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.

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Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

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As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.

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In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.

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General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

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Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.

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There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: January 8th, 1821

Died: January 2nd, 1904

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