GDG- Winter Stomp

[Batrinque at aol.com]

And of course John Gibbon in his divisional report speaking of this Day 2 
action wrote: "> The enemy came on with such impetuosity that the head of his 
> column came quite through a vacancy in our line to the left of my division, 
> opened by detaching troops to other points. By the steadiness, however, of the 
> troops in the immediate vicinity, and the timely arrival of the Twelfth Corps, 
> this advance was checked and driven back with considerable loss, the pursuit 
> being continued for some distance beyond our lines, and all the guns overrun 
> by the enemy retaken."


"... to the left of my division ..."  Not a word about batteries on the right 
of his line being overrun ...

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT