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362 movement, as a whole, substantially and completely turned McPherson's left, with results, only less equal from the accidental position of the Sixteenth corps, is abundantly established, among other testimony, by General Sherman's account of it, by the statement of officers of McPherson's staff, by that of General Wheeler, and by the letter which General Hood quotes from General Blair, who commanded the left corps of McPherson's army.

In his Memoirs volume II, pages 79-80) General Sherman, erroneously supposing the attacking force to consist of Hood and a part of Hardee's corps, says of this movement and the respective positions of the forces:

The following are pertinent extracts from the letter of General Blair, above mentioned: