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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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ger in population, archi-tecturally poor. There was a court-house inthe place, and a tavern, remembered now asdouble-storied, unpainted, and with windowsof eight-by-ten glass, which, if the panes maybe likened to eyes, were both squint and cat-aractous. Looking through them gave thestreet outside the appearance of a sedgyslough of yellow backwater. The entertain-ment furnished man and beast was good ofthe kind; though at the time mentioned asleepy traveler, especially if he were of theNorth, might have been somewhat vexed bythe exjjlosions which spiced the good thingsof a debating society that nightly took posses-sion of the bar-room, to discuss the relativefighting (lualities of the opposing sections.The jjerlinency of the description lies in thefact that on these occasions the i)olemicistsof Dover, even the wisest of them, littledreamed how near they were to a day whentrial of the issue would be had on the hillsaround them, and at their very doors, and THE CAPTURE OE EORT DOAE.LSON.
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GENERAL JOHN B. hLOM3. (AFTER A PHOIOl.RAPH BYE. ANTHONY.) t to be broken. The question was whetherhe effort would be made directly or by turn-ng its defended positions. Of the nationalrun-boats afloat above Cairo, some were for-nidably iron-clad. Altogether the flotilla wasitrong enough to warrant the theory that aiirec? descent would be attempted; and toneet the movement the Confederates threwap powerful batteries, notably at Columbus,Island No. lo, Memphis, and Vicksburg. Sofully were they possessed of that theory thatthey measurably neglected the possibilities ofinvasion by way of the Cumberland and Ten-nessee rivers. Not until General JohnstonEstablished his headquarters at Nashville wasserious attention given to the defense of thosestreams. A report to his chief of engineersof November 21, 1861, establishes that atthat date a second battery on the Cumber-land at Dover had been completed ; that ajwork on the ridge had been laid out, and twoiguns mounted; and that the encampmentiw

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