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"... Col. Wharton ordered a charge. / //
Co. B was in the advance, we raised a
yell and charged them at ful spead
with us after them.".
of six guns which was supported by eight thousand men," wrote Dun-
nie. "The fight continued until after dark when our men fell back to
the same position leaving our dead and wounded on the field."1 Like
many of his comrades, Affleck was convinced that the Confederates had
whipped the Yankees at Murfreesboro and was critical of Bragg's deci-
sion to withdraw. "I can't understand why Bragg retreated from Mur-
freesboro," he wrote.
He had the Yanks completely whiped [sic], and if he had followed them up,
they could not have made another stand between here and Nashville, and
there we could have starved them out-Instead of that we are in full retreat
for Miss. I suppose."
10Ibid., Jan. 5, 1863.
17Ibid. (quotations) For the battle of Murfreesboto, or Stone's River as it was icerned
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