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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
Colonel J. M. Williams. Tenth Louisiana, Colonel E. Waggaman. Fourteenth Louisiana, Colonel Z. York. Fifteenth Louisiana, Colonel E. Pendleton. Rodes's division. Major-General R. E. Rodes. Daniel's brigade. Grimes's brigade. Thirty-second North Carolina, Colonel E. C. Brabble. Forty-third North Carolina, Colonel Thomas S. Kenan. Forty-fifth North Carolina, Colonel Samuel H. Boyd. Fifty-third North Carolina, Colonel Wm. A. Owens. Second North Carolina Battalion, Major John M. Hancock. Ramseur's brigade. with North Carolina regiments from Steuart's brigade was Cox's brigade. Second North Carolina, Colonel W. R. Cox. Fourth North Carolina, Colonel Bryan Grimes. Fourteenth North Carolina, Colonel R. T. Bennett. Thirtieth North Carolina, Colonel F. M. Parker. Doles's brigade. Cook's brigade. Fourth Georgia, Colonel Philip Cook. Twelfth Georgia, Colonel Edward Willis. Twenty-first Georgia, Colonel John T. Mercer. Forty-fourth Georgia, Colonel W
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Northern opinion of Grant's generalship. (search)
t is tacitly supported in General Humphreys's book by what would seem to be a column of indisputable facts. I understand from him that General Grant was at least seven times conspicuously and with enormous loss defeated by General Lee before the exhaustion of his war materials and the universal collapse of the Confederacy compelled the latter to surrender. These were not reported as defeats in the bulletins of the day, and some of them were even supposed to be victories, as in the case of Hancock's magnificent attempt to break through Lee's centre at Spotsylvania Courthouse; but they were defeats nevertheless. When a commander assumes the offensive and is repulsed by the enemy with severe loss, it is a defeat for him and a victory for his antagonist, although it may not be a decisive one. Many things conspired to prevent General Lee's victories from being decisive: The overwhelming superiority of the Union army in numbers and munitions of war, his own lack of absolutely necessary