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Lieutenant-General Stewart, in his official report published in the appendix (page 351). gives quite a different version of the plan and character of these operations. He says:

The Federal accounts are to the same effect. And the Federal commander, in his official report of this engagement, claims to have captured five battle-flags, and 1,500 or 2,000 muskets; to have buried over 700 of our dead left in his hands; and estimates our loss at some six or seven thousand men (Sherman's Memoirs, volume II, pages 88-91). These claims are no doubt enormously exaggerated, and are merely cited as tending to show the character ind gravity of the operations.

This is the occasion, above referred to, when General Hood called Hardee from his own command on the extreme right of the army,