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382 representative officers and soldiers of every command serving in Hardee's corps on the 20th of July, 1864, and I have found no one who ever heard of the alleged warnings against breastworks except in and by this book. Lack of space restricts quotations on this subject to those who from their positions at the time can speak most directly to the point.

Colonel D. G. White, who from an early period in the war was a member of General Hardee's staff, and who during all that time was well acquainted with Cleburne, writes as follows: