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Title: Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: White, Henry Alexander
Subjects: Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870
Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hells. His presence added inspiration tohis gunners, and the fire of enthusiasm leaped fromheart to heart as the beloved leader passed in view.Alexander heard him say, It is well war is so terri-ble or we would grow too fond of it. Against Hookers advice Burnside pushed theFifth corps into the field already covered with thewreckage of the Second corps. Sheltered behinddead horses and dead men lay the scattered and ter-rorized Federal musketeers, who could not escapefrom the presence of the Confederate sharpshooters.Two regiments were brought to the base of thehill and two more to the crest by Ransom to facethe advance of Humphreyss division. Alexandersguns now took the place of the Washington artilleryon the Marye summit. The spirit of Humphreyswas bold, and he pushed his men forward with bay-onets fixed. A sheet of flame again enwrapped thebase of Maryes heights, and the Federal soldiersfell like leaves. Human valour was not equal to thetask laid upon the Federal regiments. One after
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THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. 1862J Fredericksburg. 249 another the brigades of Humphreys broke and fled.A storm of death roared from that hill-slope whichno organised body of men could face and live. Cooland methodical were the veterans of Kershaw, Ran-som, and Alexander as they visited death and woundsupon one thousand men of this Federal division.Hooker held Sykes in check to cover the retreat ofHumphreys, while Griffins division rushed towardthe southern end of the stone wall. Carrolls brigadewas followed by one of Gettys in making this battlestrong. From five to six oclock the fighting wasterrific; confusion and death reigned in all the Fed-eral lines of assault. Night settled down upondisaster and disorder in Burnsides right wing.More than thirty thousand men from three differentcorps had been launched against Longstreets posi-tion ; seven thousand men of Georgia and the Caro-linas had kept them easily at bay. Not a Federalsoldier touched the stone fence, while eight thou-sand e

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