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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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orthernbounds of the map. The (!onfederate artillery engaged comprised Kem-pers battery, two guns of Harts battery, and Lieu-tenant Barrys 32-pounder rifled gun mounted ona rail-car, and jirotected from cannon-shot by a sloping .roof, in front, covered with plates of iron, throughwhich a ))ort-hole had been pierced.—FnnoR.) REAR-GUARD FIGHTING AT SAVAGES STATION. 461 Smiths division arrived at the station about eral I IciiU/ehnans tro<)))s to be; on the left noon or shortly after, and took position on the of the Williamsburg road was timber also, left in a wood. General Sumners corps, con- and General Smiths division was in position sisting of General Sedgwicks and General therein. Sumners corps took jjosition in the Richardsons uivisions, arrived about 2 i-. m. clearing between the Williamsburg road and There \vas a cleared field of several acres the railroad. It consisted of two divisions of on the north side of the railroad which was infantry, Sedgwicks and Richardsons. Burnss
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BATTLE CF SAVAGes STATION. (FROM A SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME BV A. K. WAUD.) (The 2500 sick and wounried in the field hospitals, and attendants were left behind when the army fell back from Savaircs St.ition, durini the nicht following the enjj.igement. The explosion on therailway is of an ordnance train. Other ordnance trains were set on fire and were run back to Bottoms bridge where they plunged into the Chickahoniiny.—EDITOR.) )ccupied by a camp hospital, containing about•wenty-five hundred sick and wounded men.rhe field was filled with hospital tents laid outn rows, each tent containing fifteen or twentynen on comfortable, clean beds, with the nec-essary surgeons and attendants. South of theiailroad, and between it and the Williamsburgpad, was another clearing, east of which wasl ravine running obliquely across the railroad,fcs edges skirted by trees, and the ravine itselfllied with undergrowth. This clearing wastearly square, and was about one-third or one-lalf mile in length a

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