amid the profuse stores of the enemy or shelter in :
' the forest, (Reb Kors vol. x, part 1. page 569-'70.) _ |
This paragraph is all literally true, but it ,
[ does not give the whole of the truth of the sit- j
» nation, and, whether framed or not to that i
r end, it has been used to give gravamen to the 1
I theory that but for the order to withdraw out
■ of action so complete a victory must have been |
gained, late as it was, or after sunset, as to i
' h»ve prevented any serious battle tho next
' day. This preposterous supposition people are 1
i asked to accept, and Hardee is adduced in
s effect by Colonel William Preston Johnston as
‘ having been of that belief. Hardee, who vir- I
tually confesses that at sunset his men had
’ been fighting twelve continuous hours without i
I food, and tiiat his own corps was so utterly |
out of his own hands that he had to seek that |
night a sleeping place with Colonel Martin, of ,
BrecW’.ridge's reserve division.
