Excerpt from Resolutions and Address of Judge Thomas G. Jones: In Memory of Gen'l John B. Gordon, at Nashville, Tenn;, June 15, 1904 Confederate arms, selected Gordon to devise and head the last desperate offensive movement of the Army of Northern Virginia, to save the failing fortunes of the Confederacy. This attack failed, after great initial success, from untoward causes, which human foresight could not prevent. He held his lines on the fateful Sunday, when our right was crushed, and such was the fury of his counter-attack that the engineer brigade from City Point was hurried to the support of the troops who held the only point on his lines which he did not retake that day. He is ordered to protect the rear on the memorable retreat from Petersburg. When the time was high for the last attempt of the army to cut through encircling foes, Lee brings him from the rear to the front. With the small remnant of his own men, and parts of Hill and Anderson's corps and a. Body of cavalry under Fitz Lee. Gordon, as the sun rose on that fateful morning to look on a nation dying there, dashed furiously against superior forces of artillery and cavalry, driving them back in confusion on the solid masses of Ord's infantry, and then stood ready to die until Lee ordered acessation of battle. Without any military training or outside influence'to help him up ward, Gordon, at the age of thirty-three, had won a Lieutenant Generalcy and immortal fame in one of its grandest armies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.