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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
of Longstreet's corps had reached the ground during the morning, and as Longstreet wished to use the divisions of Hood and McLaws in covering his right, it was appointed to lead the van. The absence of Pickett's division the day before made General Long. street very 10th to make the attack, but Lee, thinking the Union force was not all up, would not wait. Longstreet urged in reply that this advantage (or supposed advantage, for the Union force was all up) was countervailed by the fact that e Committee on the Conduct of the War, in favor of attack. See Report, second series, vol. i., passim. But since the above text was written, I have become convinced from testimony more weighty than any given above—to wit, the testimony of General Long. street himself—that attack would have resulted disastrously. I had, said that officer to the writer, Hood and McLaws, who had not been engaged; I had a heavy force of artillery; I should have liked nothing better than to have been attacked,