Note 46 — Chapter XVI

Note.—At a reception given Gen. Burnside, January, 1864, at Boston, by the Second Massachusetts Infantry, the General in the course of his speech, told how he asked a rebel prisoner four or five days after the attack on Fort Sanders why Gen. Longstreet did not make a second one. “Well,” said the prisoner “General, I will tell you. Our men just swear that they are never going into that slaughter pen again, and when they won’t go, the ball won’t roll.”

(See Chas. F. Walcott’s History of the Twenty-first Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers.)