Identifier: autobiographype00butl (find matches)
Title: Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
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Publisher: Boston, A.M. Thayer
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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at is, substantiallywithout support on its right, there was almost a necessity for adouble line of wire in its front. But there was none whateverthere. The order to put it there, his division commander reports,was given to Heckman. I have seen in one of the many publica-tions of Smith on this subject that he says it was because there wasnot enough wire with which to do it. How that can be I do notunderstand, for there was nine miles of that wire to be had for thetaking, and the time in which to do it was more than ample. In one of his later publications Smith says that no wire wasordered to be put in front of Heckmans brigade, and Heckman inhis report speaks of no order to put the wire in his front. If therewas no order given to have it done, it is very clear the order shouldhave been given, as Heckmans brigade was on the right, in a positionwhich most needed such protection. It would have been better to have extended the wire a considera-ble distance to the right of Heckmans brigade.
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