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Quotation from Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman
“There was no positive order to retreat, although for an hour it had been going on by the operation of the men themselves”
Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. IX (official report of Bull Run) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I))
Sherman's account of how his brigade's discipline dissolved under close-range musketry at First Bull Run.
Citation: "There was no positive order to retreat, although for an hour it had been going on by the operation of the men themselves" — William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. IX (official report of Bull Run) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I)). (id shermans-memoirs-q2)
Portrait: William Tecumseh Sherman, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
