testifiedyear, grant that general meade said if you put the colored troops in front we only had that one division and it should prove a failure. it would then be said and very properly that we were shoving to get killedhead because we did not care anything about them. that cannot be said if we put white troops in front. since a burnside protested this last-minute change, meade stated he would talk to grant about it and it is important to understand technically burnside out ranked meade. contentious sort of thing since burnside arrived in the spring. both oft the ranks of them and he can decide. here is the plan. meade represents what his opinion is and the postscript version of what burnside feels and grant agrees with meade. however, neither general bother to warn burnside. meade and another general appeared at burnside's headquarters. he still wanted the plan he had to go for it. he asked meade not to change and final dutchno, the the order is final. they use of the colored troops, meade rejected. he wanted the men to go up probably and get the crest. it does not take into account