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I looked upon this matter as an unwarranted attack upon the soldierly honor and millitary character of this gallant brigade, and I have taken the trouble to write this not for the purpose in turn of assailling the menory of General Taylor, but rather because duty to my comrades requires that truth should be substituted on the record for what I cannot but reqard as malicious and silly falsehood. Others may not attach to this the importance I do, or would at least pass it by incontempt. But the exposure of these falsehoods
of General Taylor's at this late day is in one sense timely since it serves to brand with suspicion every statement he makes in his recent astonishing book entitled Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War "
It is to be presumed, were General Taylor still living, he would attempt proof of of the statements quoted, since he was at such pains to give them utterance.It would however, be interesting to know if any of his fellow rebels now living
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