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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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pon their villagethat dreary morning of the 14th of February,let us go back to the preceding day, and bringup an incident of McClernands swing intoposition. About the center of the Confederate out-works there was a V-shaped hill, markedsharply by a ravine on its right and anotheron its left. This Colonel Heiman occupiedwith his brigade of five regiments — all ofTennessee but one. The front presented wasabout twenty-five hundred feet. In the angleof the V, on the summit of the hill, CaptainManeys battery, also of Tennessee, had beenplanted. Without protection of any kind,it nevertheless completely swept a large fieldto the left, across which an assaulting forcewould have to come in order to get at Hei-man or at Drake, next on the south. Maney, on the point of the hill, had beenactive throughout the preceding afternoon,and succeeded in drawing the fire of some ofMcClernands guns. The duel lasted untilnight. Next morning it was renewed with in-creased sharpness, Maney being assisted on
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THE CAPTURE OF FORT DONELSON. 297 his right by Gravess battery of Buckners di-vision, and by some pieces of Drakes on hisleft. McClernands advance was necessarily slowand trying. This was not merely a logical re-sult of unacquaintance with the country andthe dispositions of the enemy; he was alsounder an order from General Grant to avoideverything calculated to bring on a generalengagement. In Maneys well-served gunshe undoubtedly found serious annoyance, ifnot a positive obstruction. Concentratingguns of his own upon the industrious Confed-erate, he at length fancied him silenced andthe enemys infantry on the right thrown intoconfusion — circumstances from which hehastily deduced a favorable chance to deliveran assault. For that purpose he reenforcedhis third brigade, which was nearest the offend-ing battery, and gave the necessary orders. Up to this time, it will be observed, therehad not been any fighting involving infantryin line. This was now to be changed. Oldsoldiers, rich wi

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