On the night of the 28th, orders were given to charge the enemy's works
the next morning at 8 o'clock, and by daylight the Army was in line,
awaiting the order to advance. It was well the order of execution was
not given. The slaughter that would have ensued would have been without
its fellow in the tales of the War.
Pickett at Gettysburg was a thing of Parade compared with what this
would have been.
The troops would have gone over a space which thereafter would have
been noted as the Field of Death.
Meade thought one way; Warren the other.
Warren was right, and Meade saw, in time, that he, himself, was wrong.
_This act of Warren did not call for what was done him at Five Forks._