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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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m. The blood shed by the Southern troops mercy of McClellan : but Magruder was there there was wasted in vain, and worse than in to keep up a clatter, as Swinton expresses vain ; for the fight had a most dispiriting eftect it. No one was better fitted for such a work. on our troops. They might have beenhalted When McClellan landed on the Peninsula, he at Mechanicsville until jackson had turned had 118,000 men. and >Lagruder had 11,500 the works on the creek, and all that waste of to cover a defensive line of fourteen miles (see blood could have been avoided. Riplevs ■Ofiicial Records, War of the Rebellion. Vol. brigade was sent to the assistance of Pender. XL, Part IIL, pages 77 and 436). But Pnnce bv the direct order, through me, of both Mr. John (as Magruder was called) amused his Davis and General Lee. They both felt press- enemy by keeinng uj) a clatter. and, it ing upon them the vast importance of keeping may be, amused himselt as well. No one 3o8 THE BATTLE OE GAINESS MILL.
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CAPTIRED liV STONEWALL JACKSON HIMSELF. (SEE PAGE 306.) ever lived who could play off the Grand Scig- egy. He put on naturally all those grandnior with a more lordly air than could the and imposing devices which so successfullyPrince.* During the absence of Lee, he kept deceive the military opponent. up such a clatter that each of McClellanscoqjs commanders was expecting a specialvisit from the much-plumed cajj and the once-gaudy attire of the master of ruses and strat- Just before we crossed the Chickahominy,1 asked General Garland if he rememberedwhat Napoleon said at Austerlitz when oneof his marshals had begged permission to at- • In antc-hcllum days (so the old army story used to run) .Magruder was a lieutenant of artillery at RousesPoint. There his mess cntertaincten expected, the mess had borrowed or rented gold plate and silver plate, cut-glass ware, rich furniture,and stylish equipages f

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