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The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gen. D. H. Hill's defence. (search)
sion of opinion on my part. I inquired why I alone was held responsible for this utterance, when the other three corps commanders, (Longstreet; Buckner, and Cheatham,) had concurred in it. To this no satisfactory answer was given. The insinuation made by some of the army correspondents of my being tardy in attacking on the morning of the 20th September, is unjust. The first intimation that I received that we were to be the assailants was an order to advance from the wing commander, (Gen. Polk,) received at 7:25 A. M. And the-first I heard of the contemplated attack at daylight was from Gen. Bragg himself, some half hour later. The four essential preparations for battle had not been made at 8 A. M., and, in fact, could not be made without the presence of the Commander-in-Chief, who then appeared on the field. Lt. Gen. Longstreet has since told me that he was so far from being ready at daylight that he was not even ready when I began the attack. My impression is that my co