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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Breckinridge's reply to General Bragg's report of the battle of Murfreesboro. (search)
ade to sustain the general spirit. While the report of the Commanding General fails, as I think, to do justice to the behavior of my division on Friday, the 2d of January; yet its strictures are chiefly leveled at my own conduct as an officer during all the operations. By direct statement and by unmistakable innuendo, it is thrl official aids to the Commander-in-Chief, and since his position on the field prevented him from seeing many of the movements, especially those of Friday, the 2d of January, it much concerns all affected by his statements to know something of those other, and to them unknown, sources of information to which he has given the sanctiticularly since, not anticipating his censures, I may not have been sufficiently minute in portions of my report. And in regard to the action of Friday, the 2d of January, upon which the Commanding General heaped so much criticism, I have to say, with the utmost confidence, that the failure of my troops to hold the position whic