HAMPTON WADE Autograph Letter Signed as Senator to General F

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DESCRIBES ROLE IN BATTLE OF PETERSBURG HAMPTON, WADE. Autograph Letter Signed, as Senator, to General F.A. Walker, thanking him for sending his History of the Second Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac and pointing out errors. 4 pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet. Columbia [SC], 17 May 1887

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". . . When we first struck the enemy, & the other Div'n crossed the Rowanty by the Bridge on the Halifax Road, both concentrating at Malone's Station. Here we were sharply engaged for some hours before Hill made his attack & my men were deployed, dismounted, on both sides of the R.R. Hill's first assault was repulsed, & when I saw him forming for a second one, I moved my whole force to the right, or east of the R.R., my left resting on it, & as the Inf'try attacked your front line, I struck that portion where you have, in your map, placed Gibbon. . . . I have spoken to some of my officers, who were present, & to Gen. McGowan, who is now here, & they all concur in my opinion on this point. There were a few rifle-pils covering your front, but they were at quite a distance from the R.R. . . ."