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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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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t could hold an army of twentytimes their number at bay, advancing along thenarrowing path of sand. There was nothing to bedone but to press the siege by gradual approaches;and even this course was surrounded by most for-midable difficulties. The scanty isthmus, twenty-five yards at its narrowest part, and subject tofrequent overflow by the tides, was swept not onlyby the fire of Wagner in front, but by that of Bat-tery Gregg on Cummings Point, at the northernextremity of the island, by numerous heavily armedbatteries on James Island, and by the destructiveplunging fire of Fort Sumter delivered over theheads of Wagner and Gregg. The first preoccu-pation of General Gillmore was the eliminationof Fort Sumter from the contest. Even while histhinned battalions were retreating from their assault 1863. on the 18th of July, he gave orders for the formation ^e^rt6 of a strong defensive line, capable of resisting any ^xvm0,1 possible sortie, which was afterwards called the First ^17. Parallel.
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GENERAL QUINCY A. G1LLMOKK, FOET WAGNER 433 On the night of the 23d he established his chap.xv.second parallel by the flying sap, six hundred July, i863.yards in advance of the first, stretching his linediagonally across the island on a ridge of sand,resting his left on Vincents Creek, which wasguarded by a floating boom, and extending hisright by a barricade to low-water mark, termina-ting in a strong crib-work, on which was establisheda powerful and novel arrangement of guns, known xxviil,as the surf battery. At every advance he p-is.planted breaching batteries against Fort Sumter;this part of the work being under the charge ofMajor T. B. Brooks, a volunteer officer, one of themost notable instances, of which there were somany, of extraordinary military capacity suddenlydeveloped in young men whose training hadhitherto been exclusively in civil pursuits. Admi-ral Dahlgren gave his earnest cooperation in thiswork; one of the most important of the breachingbatteries was armed and mann

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