beauregard's staff made a mistake. excuse me. the problem i have with wiley sword is, he basically repeated the same thing, but the problem i have with mr. sword is, on the same official records page, immediately above it, is another dispatch on something else, and sword sites that in two other pages of his book on different subjects. i find it hard to believe she did not see the correct dispatch. -- he did not see the correct dispatch. now, another thing hood is criticized for is being callous. because of complaining -- and kind of complaining because his men did not fight enough, and there were not enough of them wounded and killed. what is cited most often is where hood did write -- he did write, after the battle of jonesboro, the vigor of the attack may in some sort be imagined when only 1400 were killed and wounded out of the two corps engaged. hood is criticized for that, and if that is all i read, i would think, how would you like to be one of the 1400? the problem with that is, hood was not at jonesboro. hood sent two cor

right behind the busted hole in the confederate line with general beauregard. they come out onto the field for an unreally clear amount of time after the battle. it's my observation that lee and beauregard must have seen some of this killing. what i do hold them accountable for, and grant and meade, is that they leave their wounded, the federal wounded out there on the battlefield in the 100-plus degree heat because meade doesn't want to admit defeat. and it's preposterous to leave these people out there bleeding, crying out in agony. by the time they have been recovered, the other comment meade staff officer says is that the bodies are so black from the sun, they're bursting now. also white because maggots are eating their flesh. all of that could have been avoided if the letter that meade did write, he had just immediately sent it over to the confederates. and so there's all sort of intricacies, if you want to talk about more, we can, of where the letter is going and how we're going to arrange the flag of truce and it takes almost a day and a half, almost two

with general beauregard, they come out onto the field and we are not really clear and it is my observationthat they must have seen some killing. i do not know -- what i hold them accountable for and grant and meade is they leave their wounded, and in the battlefield in the 100 plus degree heat because meade does not want to admit defeat. it is preposterous to leave these people out there bleeding and crying out in agony and by the time they will be recovered, the other comment meade's staff member made is the bodies are so black from the sun and also white with maggots eating the flesh and it could've been avoided if the letter that meade wrote he had sent it over to the confederates. and all of these intricacies, if you want to talk about it we talk about it we can, with where the letter is going and how will arrange and it takes a day and a half. it is really disgusting. i always say to those people, these men are not heroes. thank you. [applause] >> the

butler moving up the james river was defeated by general beauregard. grant realizes now that his supporting armies are not going to get their job done, and decides he can draw reinforcements from them. he asks general butler, who is handling the army of the james, to send him baldy smith's 18th corps. so around the 28th of may, baldy smith starts toward the cold harbor area, basically coming in at white house landing. he's going to be coming by boat. it's quite an operation. baldy smith is going to take his 18th corps from an area called city point. in the ber muda hunter area near petersburg. come down the james river, swing around, come up the york, into the pamonkey, and finally land by boat up at white house landing. that's going to take a few days. baldy's men won't arrive until the 30th of may. lee also is looking for reinforcements. general breckenridge, who had defeated seagal in the shenandoah valley is now freed up and is pouring down here in direction, who reaches the army of northern virginia and takes up a position on the creek. lee also p

butler moving up the james river was defeated by general beauregard. now that his supporting armies are not going to get their job done, and decides he can draw reinforcements from them. he asks general butler, who is handling the army of the james, to send him baldy smith's 18th corps. so around the 28th of may, baldy smith starts toward the cold harbor area, basically coming in at white house landing. he's going to be coming by boat. it's quite an operation. baldy smith is going to take his 18th corps from an area called city point. in the ber muda hunter area near petersburg. come down the james river, swing around, come up the york, into the pamunkey, and finally land by boat up at white house landing. that's going to take a few days. baldy's men won't arrive until the 30th of may. lee also is looking for reinforcements. general breckenridge, who had defeated seagal in the shenandoah valley is now freed up and is pouring down here in direction, who reaches the army of northern virginia and takes up a position on the creek. lee also positions -- i'm

butler moving up the james river was defeated by general beauregard. grant realizes now that his supporting armies are not going to get their job done, and decides he can draw reinforcements from them. he asks general butler, who is handling the army of the james, to send him baldy smith's 18th corps. so around the 28th of may, baldy smith starts toward the cold harbor area, basically coming in at white house landing. he's going to be coming by boat. it's quite an operation. baldy smith is going to take his 18th corps from an area called city point. in the ber muda hunter area near petersburg. come down the james river, swing around, come up the york, into the pamonkey, and finally land by boat up at white house landing. that's going to take a few days. baldy's men won't arrive until the 30th of may. lee also is looking for reinforcements. general breckenridge, who had defeated seagal in the shenandoah valley is now freed up and is pouring down here in direction, who reaches the army of northern virginia and takes up a position on the creek. lee also p

general butler moving up the james river was defeated by general beauregard and another the force of confederates all 06 this happening on may 15th and may 16th. so grant realizes his supporting armies won't get their job done and decides to draw reinforcements from them. he asked general butler to send him smith's 18th corp so around the 28th of may baldy smith starts at white harbor and he's coming by boat. quite an operation. baldy smith, takes his 18th corp from an area called city point in the bermuda hundred area near st. petersburg and come down the james river, and swing around and come up the york and into then finally land by boats into the white house landing. that takes a few days and the men don't arrive until the 30th of may. lee also is looking for re-enforinforcement reinforcements. general breckenridge m is poring down here in this direction and he breaches the army of northern virginia and takes up a position on the creek. and lee also positioned -- petitions richmond for repen forcementes from that area because now general butler is out of the picture that should f

and general butler was defeated by general beauregard and another force of confederates, all of thisppening may 15th, may 16th. grant realizes now his supporting armies are not going to get their job done and decides he can draw reinforcements from them. he asks general butler, who is handling the army of the james, to send him baldy smith's 18th corps. and so somewhere around the 28 9 of may baldy smith starts toward cold harbor area, basically going to be coming in at white house landing. he's going to be coming by boat and it's quite an operation. baldy smith is going to take his 18th corps from an area called city point in the bermuda hundred area year petersburg, come down the james river, swing around around come up the york into the pamunkey and land by boats at white house landing. it's going to take a few days and 3w58dy smith's men won't arrive until the 30th of may. lee also is looking for reinforcements. general breckenridge, who had defeated segal is now freed up and is pouring down here in this direction, reaches the army of northern virginia, and takes up a position on

beauregard treated him horribly, and finally mahone comes through and he hears that the confederate officers are putting mahone down as rescuing black troops. >> i -- well, go ahead. >> it just shocked me. then the other thing, going through some of these records that you don't read about too much, is in the ninth core area, which is most of the park, they talk about how the confederates kept up sniper fire day and night, because they were so ticked off -- >> both sides. >> -- the colored troops are in the area. the union officers feel that's why it's worse there. of course, they are the closest, but in the history that i learned growing up, i didn't hear that level of nastiness. mahone must have had something in him that was just a little bit more decent than the others. >> and i don't claim to know what that is. it is true that after the fourth division was consolidated later that year, the snipering does slack off a bit on that particular front. the other thing i'll just mention, and i found this absolutely fascinating. after the battle, about 1100 black and white prisoners were taken. th