Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I once expressed this opinion to General Sherman; he agreed with me. General Warren, an engineer cflicer, referring in his report to Jackson's flank march and sur prise oi Hooker's right wing on the evening of the 2d, says: I was near this part of the field about 5 p.m., when heavy firing of musketry began on our right and I hastened to the spot. The Eleventh Corps on their left had made no stand at all behind its breastworks, but ran away while yet the enemy's bullets scarcely reached them, and while their own artillery heroically served, still held the enemy in check. I tried in vain to assist some of the officers in rallying their men, but soon saw it was a waste of pre cions time. This flank move in our very presence, which General Lee had decided Upon, and the execution of which he had entrusted to General Jackson, was one of great risk under any circumstances.

At Austerlitz the Allies attempted to do the same thing that Jackson did and met a great disaster. But General Lee knew that he did not have Napoleon in his front. At p.m., on May 2, when Jackson was almost in touch with his flank and was forming his lines for attack, Hooker, unconscious of Jackson's presence and of the impending blow, said in a despatch to Sedgwick.

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