. . sed on any fieldof war, challenging the his-toric gallantry of those Vir-ginians who charged withPickett to the crest of Cem-etery Ridge at leading their divi-sions or brigades were shotfrom their horses at thevery muzzles of the Unionmuskets. The desperatefighting during the twoclosing hours of thatveniber day has few paral-lels. The courage of therebels was in vain, and asnight curtained the awfulscene they gave up thebattle. The carnage wasfrightful. In those twohours of fierce conflict seventeen hundred Co
. . sed on any fieldof war, challenging the his-toric gallantry of those Vir-ginians who charged withPickett to the crest of Cem-etery Ridge at leading their divi-sions or brigades were shotfrom their horses at thevery muzzles of the Unionmuskets. The desperatefighting during the twoclosing hours of thatveniber day has few paral-lels. The courage of therebels was in vain, and asnight curtained the awfulscene they gave up thebattle. The carnage wasfrightful. In those twohours of fierce conflict seventeen hundred Confederates were slain,including six general officers. One of them, Major-general Pat-rick R. Cleburne, was beyond compare the best division com-mander in Hoods army. He fell, pierced by half a dozen bullets,as his horse was leaping the ditch at the works. Six other gen-erals were wounded and one was captured. In no other battle ofthe war was the loss of general officers half as large, proportionateto the number engaged, as that of the Confederates at RILEY W. SNYDER,COMPANY G, SIXTY-FOURTH. 1864.] DEMENTS THAT AKK NOT Tl 659 More than five thousand 1 ere wounded—most of them rely, owing to the close fighting—and seven hundred weremade captive. The Iliiou army, protected St works, lost less than two hundred killed, about one thousand wounded, andeleven hundred prisoners. Two-thirds of the latter were from the brigades of Wagner, whose misfortunes have already beendescribed. General Stanley, commanding the Fourth corps, was.•rely wounded, and the command of the corps passed to Gen-eral Thomas J. Wood. In writing of the battle of Franklin, General Jacob D. Cwho commanded the Twenty-third corps, does injustice, at leastby implication, to the brigades of Conrad and Lane. In his vol-ume of the Scribner series, page 97, he says that Wagner ralliedthe disorganized brigades at the river but they were not againcarried into action. It is no doubt true that Wagner did noti
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