Orders Given and Obeyed in the Heat of Battle Cost a Colonel His Reputation 

In the thick of combat, as friend and foe grapple for supremacy in the drifts of gunsmoke on unfamiliar ground, split-second life and death command decisions are part of leadership. For Emory Fiske Best, colonel of the 23rd Georgia Infantry, his actions at the Battle of Chancellorsville cost him everything. Here's the story.
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