something to chamberlin. the use of the passive voice again so instructions were sent. further obsecures the top link in the chain of command. finally, a new detail emerges from the manual of arms. instead of coming to shoulder arms and standing in that position silently throughout the surrender, his soldiers as he now represents them cycle through the sequence from order arms, which is musket butts resting on the ground as they do in parade rest, to carry and back. so he is doing a sequence. or he has them doing a sequence. with version four, first published in the boston journal in april 1901, and scomb constituently this is very important for civil war memories subsequently picked up and circulated throughout the south by the southern historical society papers in 1904 chamberlin clearly positions himself as the originator of the salute to gordon's troops. i'm now on page of the handout. about three or four inches down the page under chamberlin's thinking. at such a time and under such conditions, i thought

if we say chamberlin made up the story, disregarding any claims of integrity, must we then say the same of gordon? a u.s. senator and governor of georgia? it is easy to be cynical especially where politicians are concerned. it would be easy, for example to explain chamberlain. and gordon not to be outdone ordered his monde -- men to attention also. during the postwar, the two men collaborated to spin out a reconciliation each for his own political reasons and i bent it. if we take a cynical line on a story of appomattox, we might be implied to see artifice in chamberlin's own success of represented of gordon. chamberlin began polishing his account of gordon's response to his salute and it reaches final form repeated in the passing of the armies. i am back on page eight in version five about seven or eight lines from the end. gordon at the head of the column writing with heavy spirit and downcast they catch is the sound of shifting arms, looks up, and takes the meaning, making with himself and his horse one uplifted figure as he dropped the point of his sword to his tell him facing to hi