GDG- Winter Stomp (The Rans Wrong Wright Tour)

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/1/07 4:25:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
chaplain.chuck at gmail.com writes:

> Except that in this case "with" does mean "with," The commander of the 19th
> Misssissippi said explicitly that in the charge Wright was *"supported on
> his left by the Forty-Eighth Mississippi... my right resting on the
> Forty-eighth."  

Well, let's see what Colonel Harris of the 19th Miss really said in his 
report about this action on July 2: "Lieutenant Burrage, Company A, of this 
regiment, who was on picket with his company, and who had been beyond the [Biss] 
orchard and barn in the morning, informed me that, if I advanced with my 
skirmishers without my right being supported, there was imminent danger, from the 
nature of the ground, of my being flanked easily.
I halted in this position some half hour, when General Wright's brigade 
commenced advancing, supported on his left by the Forty-eighth Mississippi 
Regiment, Colonel Jayne commanding, my right resting on the Forty-eighth. I again gave 
the order to advance, pushing forward my line and driving the enemy from his 
position in the orchard, and capturing some prisoners at the barn. Still 
driving the enemy before me, I advanced some 400 paces farther up the hill."

So, what actually is said that the the 19th MIss, with its right flank 
connected with the 48th Miss, stayed in place while Wright's brigade advanced.  
Doesn't look to me that the 48th was connectd with Wright's left during the 
assault.  "Supported" can take on a number of meanings -- and "connecting with" very 
often is not one.

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT