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And by a combination of good luck, audacity and hard fighting, Wheeler did "hold on" until Cleburne relieved him and enabled him to move further to the right to confront the extending lines of the enemy.

Yet General Hood, in purporting to give a true and correct history of the operations of 20th of July, and while charging General Hardee with a failure "to push the attack as ordered," nowhere in his book makes the slightest allusion to the vital and controlling fact that he withdrew this division from the line of battle when on the point of moving to the assault, at the very turning point of the day, and thereby prevented the pushing of the attack.