being the first to mount the ridge is made by other brigades than

Hazen's, with equal if not greater force, so the absurdity of his

NOTE: In a book published by General Hazen in 1885, he endeavored to

show, by a number of letters from subordinate officers of his

command, written at his solicitation from fifteen to twenty years

after the occurrence, that his brigade was the first to mount

Missionary Ridge, and that it was entitled to possess these guns.

The doubtful character of testimony dimmed by the lapse of many years

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