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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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Stuarts reportmakes it quite certain that at the time referredto by him. Porter could easily have movedforward from Dawkinss Branch and seizedthe ridge on which are the Hampton, Cole, 460 THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. and Monroe houses, from which he wouldhave had a complete view of the field fromright to left. Not only this, but his occupationof that ridge would have connected himclosely with our left, and absolutely preventedLongstreet from forming on Jacksons rightuntiT he had dislodged Porter, which wouldhave occupied him too long to have permittedthe efiective use of his troops for any other Longstreet did not annihilate Porters corpsduring the day if it were so easily in his powerto do so. It is also proper to suggest that itwould have required a long time and all of hisforce to do this annihilating business on sucha corps as Porters; and in that case, whatwould have become of Jacksons right de-prived of Longstreets active support, whichbarely enabled Jackson to hold the ground
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f.*^ y^^^^^^y^-^^^! ■% --■Sk VIEW OF Jacksons position as seen from groveton corners, (from a recent photograph.) The 6uthest ridge is the line of the unfinished railway. Jacksons center occupied the ground in the right of the picture. There, onele\-ated open ground, the front of a deep cut, stands the Union monument illustrated on the next page.— Editor. purpose, and certainly for the advance whichhe subsequently made against our left. Long-street now asserts that he was in front ofPorter with part of his corps at some indefinitehour of the day, variously fixed, but accordingto him by eleven oclock in the morning, aboutthe time that Porters coq« reached DawkinssBranch. He further asserts, somewhat ex-travagantly, that if Porter had attacked he(Longstreet) would have annihilated him.He .seems to have thought it a simple matterto annihilate an army corps of ten or twelvethousand men, much of which was composedof regular troops, but perhaps his statementto that effect would hardl

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