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General Lee reached the latter place in person on the 21st, but found Wise's headstrong and captious spirit hardly more amenable to his discipline than to Floyd's.
After the explosion, with less than one thousand two hundred men, and with the co-operation of Wright's Battery and Davenport's Battery, and a few men of Wise's Brigade, resisted nine thousand of the enemy from five to eight o'clock.
In the skirmish at Wise's Forks, and from a deserter, it was learned that Hoke had joined the Kinston forces with his division, and there were rumors of other reinforcements arriving. Advancing along the railroad, Palmer reached the drier ground near Southwest Creek and came under artillery fire from guns intrenched on the other side of the creek.
Davis's perplexity Beauregard startles him Lee calls Johnston to command Personal relations of leading officers Dwindling armies The cavalry Assignments of generals The Beaufort and New Berne line Am ordered to New Berne Provisional corps Advance to cover railway building Dover and Gum swamps Bragg concentrates to oppose us Position near Kinston Bragg's plan of attack Our own movements Condition of railroad and river Our advance to Wise's Forks and Southwest Creek Precautions Conference with Schofield Battle of Kinston Enemy attack our left front Rout of Upham's brigade Main line firm Ruger's division reaches the field Enemy repulsed End of first day's fight Extending our trenches on the left Sharp skirmishing of the 9th Bragg's reinforcements His attack of the both Final repulse and retreat of the enemy.
The advance-guard was able to withstand the enemy alone, and drove back those who assaulted them with considerable loss. It has since appeared that this movement of the enemy was by Wise's command making a direct attack upon my position, whilst Floyd was moving by the diagonal road to Dogwood Gap on the Sunday Road where it crosses the old State Road.
The first severe attack of the enemy was on the South of the "Crater," which was defended by a part of the Twenty-second under Major Shedd, and Benbow's Twenty-third under Captain White. The enemy attacked with fury. Our men fought nobly, but were driven down their ditch. Wise's Brigade then joined in, and our men rushed back and recovered the lost space.
Wise's "Go, perjured man," I remember, again; and then M. Grabu's "Song upon Peace."
Accommodations for entertainments, chapel exercises, dancing and a bathing establishment are included in the plans in a way that gives great results with great economy of construction. Probably the feature in the scheme of the St. Lawrence State Hospital of the greatest popular and professional interest is Dr. Wise's plan to have there an Americanized and improved Gheel.
But it was rumored that Wise's brigade of Confederates was now posted at Malvern Hills, closing up the avenue of escape, and that the whole right wing of the Confederate army was pushing toward Charles City. Malvern Hills, the nearest point that could be gained, was about twenty miles distant, and Harrison's Landing presumed to be our final destination was thirty miles away.
Having developed, since entering the service, from a mere youth in size to a man of two hundred pounds, to fit me out in becoming style was no simple matter. I recall one occasion when I started out on my visiting-round, wearing Frank Preston's coat, Henry Wise's trousers, and Col. John Ross's waistcoat, and was assured by my benefactors that I looked like a brigadier-general.
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