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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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cock is done crowing. I asked wherehe was buried. He isnt buried; they havecarried him out! I stepped into the barn-yard and found him thrown upon a heap ofdirt. It was impossible to express all the in-dignation I felt; I emphatically said that nonebut cowards would have been guilty of suchan act. T was ordered off for thus expressingmy mind. Undoubtedly he had been very bit-ter, but that was no excuse. I mention this asthe onlv instance I ever knew where a dead 132 RECOLLECTIOXS OF A PRIVATE. enemv. or even a prisoner, was insulted by our water was waist-deep throughout the greatersoldiers. No W.//V/-would have committedsuch part of the swamp.a foul act. It was reser\ed for some miser- able skulker who. to avoid the active dutiesof a soldier, had taken refuge in a hospital. Considerable foraging was done, on thesly, about the neighboring plantations, but corps, which was stationed at Tylers house, THE BATTLE OF SEVEN PINES (FAIR OAKS). We were ordered on duty with Sumners I Hi. : I I
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Sr.MNER S MARCH TO REENFOKCE COUCH AT FAIR OAKS STATION. LJentenant Edmund Kirtiy, B.ittery I, First U. S. Artillery, says in his official report: The roads were almost impassable for artillery, and Iperienced creat difficult) in getting my );uns along. I was obliged at times to unlimber and use the prolonjje, the cannoneers being up to theirlists in water. About 4 : 7> P. M. I was within three-quarters of a mile of Fair Oaks Station, with three pieces (Napoleon twelve-pounders) and onethe remainder of the battery being in the rear, and coming ii() as fast as circumstances wouUl permit. as a rule foraging was severely condemnedby our commanders. There was much to-bacco raised in this section of country, andwe found the barns filled with the bestciualityof tobacco in leaf; this we appropriated with-out objection on the part of our officers. Asall trades were represented in our ranks, thatof cigar-maker was included, and the armyrioted incigars without enriching the sutlers.By the If

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