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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Review of Bragg's last campaign. (search)
r orders without the loss of a gun or a prisoner. Unfortunately, we were not so successful in the centre and on the left. Half of Anderson's division, under Brig.-Gen. Deas, was left (perhaps under a misapprehension of orders) in the trenches at the foot of the ridge, with instructions to retire to the crest whenever the enemy advanced within two hundred yards of their line. In executing this difficult order against which Gen. Deas is understood to have protected, the men were much exposed as they ascended the ridge, and so completely exhausted when they reached the crest that they were unfit for duty for fifteen minutes, and many of them actually vomited rear in spite of all his efforts, until finally his whole di vision became involved and retreated. I would add that the reports in circulation in regard to Deas's brigade and other brigades in this division, beyond what is here stated, are without foundation. Breckinridge's division, commanded by Bate, and not Lewis,
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Turning Point in Bragg's late defeat — the breaking of the "Left Centre." (search)
cover of two high points which jutted out from the top of the ridge--one in front of Anderson's, and the other in front of Deas's brigade. Soon we saw the enemy slowly crawling up at these two points in immense numbers. The men on the right of my rpoint, broke and fled in confusion down the hill. Gen. Anderson, commanding the division, was at this time in the rear of Deas's brigade. Gen. Manigault sent Capt. Walker to inform him that the enemy had carried the hill in front of his brigade, coieces upon our brigade. Several shots were fired from them down our line, and by this time we had the top of the ridge in Deas's front, and his brigade began to break to the rear. Still our brigade stood firm and kept back the enemy in our front. r right. The right of my regiment was the last to leave, and when it did, the whole of Anderson's brigade on our left and Deas' on our right, had gone, and the enemy had planted his colors all along the line. Companies R, C, and C, came very near b
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