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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (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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severalstands of colors, and a number of prisoners were cap-tured. Our loss was severe in this engagement; Brig-adier-Generals Field and Trimble, and Colonel Porno,commanding Hayss brigade, were severely wounded,and several other valuable officers killed or disabledwhose names are mentioned in the accompanyingreports. General Jackson in his report dated April27, 1863, says: . . . My troops on this day were distributed alongand in the vicinity of the cut of an unfinished railroad(intended as a part of the track to connect the Man-assas road directly with Alexandria), stretching fromthe Warrenton turnpike in the direction of SudlcysMill. It was mainly along the excavation of this un-finished road that my line of battle was formed on the29th : Jacksons division, under Brigadier-GeneralStarke,on the right; Ewells division, under Briga-dier-General Lawton, in the center; and Hills divis-ion on the left. In the morning, about 10 oclock, theFederal artillery opened with spirit and animation
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At nrttin of ihat dav Porter* corps wai in much the same po^i-lion a* at *un«ct ; and, arcirdinK to f icncral Pope, at noon Porter,with very little rc-^i»tan: to overcome, might have occupied ihchilt of the Monrfic and Hampton Cole hoiiiM:<i. The great impor-tance to the Lnuin army of that pMition in describefl by GeneralPope on page ji). ly.ngstrcct at that hour wan hurrying to thefield through fraine^ville, and the right of the Union army was IRIIJAV, AUGUST 29. arrayed in continuous line in front of JacUson from a point onthe turnpike three-quarters of a mile west of Groveton to thepoint where the Sudlcy Springs road crosses the unfinished rail-road which was Jacksons stronghold. The map above illustratesthe situation at the time of the greatest success on the right,when Jacksons left had been turned upon itself by Kearnys,Renos, and Hookers divisions.— Editok. THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 457 dition of things on the field in front of me.At 5: 30 oclock, when General Porte

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