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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : 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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posed right by the EleventhCorps in the Wilderness of Virginia. The resultproved that the Army of the Tennessee was panic-proof. Blairs soldiers, finding the enemy rushingupon their rear, simply leaped over their intrench-ments and fighting from the reverse side repulsedthem and drove them back with great slaughter.Nor was this the only test of their organizationand their courage; for Hood,seeing that Hardee wasfully engaged on the flank and rear, threw forwardthe force he had retained, in front of the Seven-teenth Corps, to support the flanking movement;so that these hardy soldiers, who from the reverse oftheir own intrenchments had repulsed the Confeder-ates attacking in their rear, now leaped once moreacross their own works and drove back this secondattack from their front. The Confederate attackon the Union front was made with such energy,and was so assisted by the formation of the ground,that a gap was opened near the point where Mc-Phersons and Schofields armies joined. This mo-
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m GENEKAL JAMES B. McPHERSON. ATLANTA 273 mentary mishap occurred under the very eyes of chap. xii.Sherman and Schofield, but was at once repairedby Shermans ordering Schofield to mass his artil-lery so as to open on the Confederate flank as itpressed towards the east. Cheathams advance wasthus checked with frightful carnage. The Fif-teenth Corps rallied and made an irresistiblecounter-charge, which drove the enemy back, re-establishing the line and gaining most of the cap-tured guns. The fighting was too hot to lastlong; Cheatham and Hardee, being engaged uponthe two sides of a right angle several miles apart,could not support each other with the efficiency re-quired. Every instant when the troops of Loganand Blair were not fighting they were digging, and alight line of intrenchments gradually grew up fromthe Union salient towards the southwest, whichwas called Leggetts Hill from the gallant chargewhich General M. D. Leggett had made in capturingit the day before, to the point where

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