The long arm of Lee, or, The history of the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia [electronic resource]: with a brief account of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance . ; Howards guns were not recovered, and theConfederates were not repulsed by Berry The gunstaken by Sickles were those of the Federal 3d Corps,which Winn had captured and left in the dirt road whendriven off by Huntington and Pleasonton from HazelGrove, and the works Sickles occupied were thosewhich Lane had withdrawn from and were over ll/2miles from Buschbecks works in the Dowdall clearing,or the nearest intrenchments of How
The long arm of Lee, or, The history of the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia [electronic resource]: with a brief account of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance . ; Howards guns were not recovered, and theConfederates were not repulsed by Berry The gunstaken by Sickles were those of the Federal 3d Corps,which Winn had captured and left in the dirt road whendriven off by Huntington and Pleasonton from HazelGrove, and the works Sickles occupied were thosewhich Lane had withdrawn from and were over ll/2miles from Buschbecks works in the Dowdall clearing,or the nearest intrenchments of Howards Corps. Sowe see that Sickles was imaginative if not accurate andmust be relegated to the same category to whichPleasonton has been assigned. What a combinationSickles as commanding-general and Pleasonton as hiscavalry leader would have made! Together their re-ported deeds furnish material for a wonderful work offiction. But while the midnight fiasco of Sicklesdesperate attack by moonlight is in many ways one ofthe comical incidents of the war, yet there is an elementof sadness about it, for many brave men were sacrificedduring the hour or two of its
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