[19] Three horse-batteries and eight 32-pr. howitzers were “brought up to the decisive point at the close of the day, thus bringing every gun of this large artillery force (the artillery reserve) into the most active and decisive use. Not a gun remained unemployed: not one could have been safely spared.—Hunt’s Report, O.R., vol. xi, part ii, p. 239.
[20] O.R., vol. xi, part iii, p. 282.
[21] Report on the Conduct of the War, p. 580. General Hooker’s evidence.
[22] Report on the Conduct of the War, p. 27.
[23] O.R., vol. xi, part i, pp. 291, 292.
[24] Letter to the author. Dr. McGuire writes to the same effect.
[25] Evelington Heights are between Rawling’s Mill Pond and Westover.
[26] The military student will compare the battles of Weissembourg, Vionville, and Gravelotte in 1870, all of which began with a useless surprise.
[27] O.R., vol. xi, part iii, pp. 291–2.
[28] Letter to the author.