Download or read book Report of Lieutenant General Holmes of the Battle of Helena written by Theophilus Hunter Holmes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of Lieutenant General Holmes of the Battle of Helena: Also, Report of Lieutenant General A. P. Hill, of the Battle of Bristoe Station; Also, Report of Major General Stevenson of Expedition Into East Tennessee I remained here until I was informed that the enemy had retaken the works on Grave-yard hill, when I sent Captain Cobbs, Of iiart's regiment, with his company, to General Fagan, and to inform him that I was unable to attack the works in front, being new exposed to fire in rear, as well as flank I crossed over the narrow ridge in front of the fort attacked by General Fagan, and the fire was so great and severe that the.men were compelled to cross this ridge singly. When I reached the crest Of the bill I discovered General Fagan's men in a rifle-pit in front of the main works, and they seemed too few, oven reinforced with what men I had, to accomplish anything, and within a short time I saw them rush out Of the ride-pits into a deep gorge immediately in their rear. Discovering the enemy moving around the crest of the hill, and fearing that I 'would be surrounded, I te treated into the ravine between the two forts attacked, and re organized what command I had with me, and then moved to the rear, forcing every straggler that I found to fall into the ranks. The first field oflicer that I met was Colonel Hawthorne, at some hu'ts where some of General Fagan's wounded were, and in a short time General Fagan came up. After moving a shert distance from here I met General Holmes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.