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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (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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l commen-dation after a success, or of sympathy or en-couragement after a defeat. From the verybeginning its camps had been filled with impu-tations and charges against its leaders, whowere accused on the streets, by the press, inCongress, and even in the War Departmentitself, and after victories as well as after de-feats, not only of incapacity or misconduct,but sometimes of disloyalty to their supe-riors, civil and military, and even to the causefor which they fought. These accusations werefollowed or accompanied by frequent changesof commanders of the army, army-corps, andeven of divisions. Under such circumstances,but little confidence could be felt by the troops,either in the wisdom of a war office which seemedto change its favorites withthe caprice of a coquette,or in the capacity of newgenerals who followedeach other in such rapidsuccession. But it is dueto that patient and sorelytried army, to say that thespirit of both its officersand men was of the best,and their devotion to
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THE LUTHERAN SEMINAKV. (THE UPPER PICTURE FROM A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH.) Both pictures show the seminary as facing the town, and in the right-hand view is seen the Chambersburg Pike. On the first day, Buford, Reynolds, and Howard used the cupola for observations; thereafter it was the chief signal-station and observatory for the Confederates.—Editor. echoed, sometimes suggested, in the Northby a portion of the press and people, so thatfriends and enemies united in inspiring in theConfederate soldier a belief in himself and acontempt for his enemy. In the Army of the Potomac it was different;the proportion of veterans was much smaller; acessation of recruiting at the very beginning ofactive operations, when men were easily obtain-able to supply losses in existing regiments, hadbeen followed, as emergencies arose, by newlevies for short periods of service, and in neworganizations which could not readily be assim-ilated by older troops. And there were special duty unconquerable. The army

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