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This position was impregnable
if defended by men who had
all to loose and nothing to
gain. As a last restor, as the last
hope. Genl Jackson ordered Whit-
ing to put his divisions in, who
had not yet been engaged. Hoods,
Whitings, and Lawtons brigades
welcomed the order, and moved
forward to the "dance of death."
Genl Whiting in his official report
says "Hundreds were [leaving?] the fight
in disorder. Two Regts of South Carolina
and Louisiana were marching back
from the field and a Brigade was
skulking and hiding and never
advanced from the west side
of the [?]." Such was the con-
dition of things when we came up-