Personal Recollections of Distinguished Generals
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Crittenden thought that its terms were positive, and no course was left him but to obey it. Wood urged Crittenden to report the circumstances, announce to Rosecrans that the movement was delayed an hour in order to report those facts, and stand ready to obey it if then repeated. It was some time before Wood could make Crittenden understand that this was the proper proceeding under the circum- stances. He rode back to Rosecrans and reported the facts, when that officer, examining for himself, ap...proved of the course pursued, and taught Crittenden that posi- tive orders were not always to be implicitly obeyed.
In three years of active warfore Tom Wood won honor from every action, from Shiloh to Nashville. The dis- asters of his corps were not disasters for him. He came out of the crucibles refined and sparkling with renewed glory. Whether proving, as he did at Shiloh, that he had made by his discipline veterans out of men who had never seen a battle — whether stemming the adverse cur- rent of battle at Chickamauga — whether scaling with ir- resistible power the heights of Mission Ridge, and carry- ing at the point of the bayonet the strongly-manned posi- tion, which looked strong enough to hold itself — whether repulsing the charge at Franklin, or making it at Nash- ville, he stands forth prominent as one of the coolest, self- OLlVEll O.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Crittenden thought that its terms were positive, and no course was left him but to obey it. Wood urged Crittenden to report the circumstances, announce to Rosecrans that the movement was delayed an hour in order to report those facts, and stand ready to obey it if then repeated. It was some time before Wood could make Crittenden understand that this was the proper proceeding under the circum- stances. He rode back to Rosecrans and reported the facts, when that officer, examining for himself, ap...proved of the course pursued, and taught Crittenden that posi- tive orders were not always to be implicitly obeyed.
In three years of active warfore Tom Wood won honor from every action, from Shiloh to Nashville. The dis- asters of his corps were not disasters for him. He came out of the crucibles refined and sparkling with renewed glory. Whether proving, as he did at Shiloh, that he had made by his discipline veterans out of men who had never seen a battle — whether stemming the adverse cur- rent of battle at Chickamauga — whether scaling with ir- resistible power the heights of Mission Ridge, and carry- ing at the point of the bayonet the strongly-manned posi- tion, which looked strong enough to hold itself — whether repulsing the charge at Franklin, or making it at Nash- ville, he stands forth prominent as one of the coolest, self- OLlVEll O.
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