. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . , and the ford below wereunder the direct and powerful fire of shot and shell from the Confederatecannon. Toombs speaks in his report in a characteristic way of his brigade ■£ It will not be wondered at. Therefore, if to my nmc-h longer than ir seemed to us. The judgment mind the story of the S oclock order is an instance of the hour, 9 oclock, which I gave in my report, of the way in which an erroneous memory is based was merely my impression from passing events, upon the desire
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . , and the ford below wereunder the direct and powerful fire of shot and shell from the Confederatecannon. Toombs speaks in his report in a characteristic way of his brigade ■£ It will not be wondered at. Therefore, if to my nmc-h longer than ir seemed to us. The judgment mind the story of the S oclock order is an instance of the hour, 9 oclock, which I gave in my report, of the way in which an erroneous memory is based was merely my impression from passing events, upon the desire to make the facts accord with a for I hasTened aT once to my own duties without theory. The actual rime must have been as much thinking to look at my watch, while the cumulative later Than 9 oclock as the period during which, evidence seems to prove conclusively that the time with absorbed artention. we had been watching staTed by Burnside. and by itc-Clellan himself in the battle on The right.—a period, it is safe to say. his original report, is correct.—J. D. C. VOL II. 43 650 THE BATTLE OF holding back Burnsides corps; but his force, thus strongly supported, wasas large as could be disposed of at the head of the bridge, and abundantlylarge for resistance to any that could be brought against it. Our advanceupon the bridge could only be made by a narrow column, showing a front ofeight men at most. But the front which Toombs deployed behind his defenses was three or four hundred yardsboth above and below the bridge. Hehimself says in his report: From the nature of the ground ou the otherside, the enemy were compelled to approachmainly by the road which led up the river fornear three hundred paces parallel with my lineof battle and distant therefrom from fifty to ahundred and fifty feet, thus exposing his flank toa destructive fire the most of that distance. Under such circumstances, I do nothesitate to affirm that the Confederateposition was virtually impregna
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