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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.19 (search)
p. So he did not advance, and was preparing to retire when we burst upon him. He had five regiments and ten guns, about 3,000 men. He had abundant support close at hand, and his position was a strong closed redoubt on a crest near the head of Saunder's Pond, on Queen's Creek, about a mile to the left of Fort Magruder, which it commanded, being on the same continuously open ground. He had, he says, full view of the whole Confederate line. But he had done us no harm, the attacks upon Longstreet d, could have picked up and carried away every man, gun and horse which Hancock had, for, in fact, his position was a dangerous one—he had ventured too far to remain there alone, and his sole line of retreat was a narrow road over the dam of Saunder's Pond. President Davis in his Memoirs says: Early confidently expresses the opinion that had his attack been supported promptly and vigorously, the enemy's forces then engaged must have been captured. But General Johnston, unfortunately more