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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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^ Stragglers andcitizens, men and women, were breaking open stores and shops. Onewho participated in the plundering has thus described the events ofthe morning: I turned into Thirteenth Street, and from thence into Cary. Astrong odor of whiskey greeted my nasal organ. A voice cried, Lookout below! A moment later a barrel of whiskey was hurled from thethird story of a warehouse. It was dashed to pieces against the pave-ment, the liquor running in streams down the gutter. A crowd wasgathered around the door of the medical purveyors office, where stooda guard with fixed bayonets. From this building barrels of liquor were )02 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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PAKKR STATION. rolled into the streets and knocked to pieces. The streets literally ranwith whiskey. A lieutenant told nie that it was to prevent the Yankeesfrom getting tight when they should enter the city. Unfortunately,the Confederate otRcers were allowed to fill their canteens. Drunkenofficers were unable to maintain any authority over the excited men,who roamed at will over the city.() The blowing up of the vessels increased the frenzy. Long trainsof wagons and artillery were crossing the bridges at the moment.After the wagons came the infantry. A spectator has vividly picturedthe scene: Custis Lees division came first, many of the men singing, othersjoking, but the majority tramped on silently, evidently depressed by thegreat disaster. Lees forces were about forty-five minutes in passing,and then came Kershaws division, a much larger body of troops. OldAvomen and girls were constantly passing and repassing, their backsbending low beneath the weight of heavy sacks of flour, meal

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