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Show nil John Vartrr .1 itttllfleil Wifbinjlon, 10. Tlie nri tesn j ninny in Filz John Fortd'o ca.;e 1: already muterinlW n.ndfitii in 1,1s fnvor the evidence an-l prrfjinnplions upon which he w,is o:ii;!ij,i!y run victcd. General Longi,treet'(i teti-mony teti-mony pppecinily ailraet- ultention. It shows that General Pone was wroog when he punpesrd 1'nrter had only tbo enemy's fi il k before him ln.i ordered him to attuck it; tb.it in i fai t hp (Lougstreet) was in the line ol buttle io ti strong positinn in Por ter's Irnut ot that time; that if Por jter had aitickei, IxJ-ijitre it could I easily have cruehed him and that then 47.000 confeOenite would have been lre lo concentrate with Lee's im mediate command ana against Pope This was only prevented by Porter's exercise of discretion and to his de monBtrations, which constantly threatened Longstrect and his associates, associ-ates, who were anxious lor the attack which Po ter wisely fai'ed to make. Pope's order to attack and Lee's order to Longstrcet to provoke such attack was practically simultaneous. |