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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
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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federal mortar battery before vorktown.(from a photograph.) the house, a constant stream, from cellar togarret, until there was no more any need ofa guard, as there was no longer anythingto guard. I felt so hopeless of protectingthe family Bible, that at last it occurred tome that the only way to save it was to carryIt oft myself I gave it to one of our coloredteamsters to carry into camp for me. Afterour arrival at Yorktown I hunted him up, buthe informed me that he had drapped it.No other building at Big Bethel was so dev-astated, and I did not see another buildingso treated on our whole route. The mendetailed to guard it declined to protect theproperty of one who was in arms fightingagainst us.
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M.T TIKJSF. MII.KS OVT OF THK MlD ! RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE. 771 After leaving Big Bethel we began to feelthe weight of-our knapsacks. Castaway over-coats, blankets, parade-coats, and shoes werescattered along the route in reckless profu-sion, beingdroppedby theoverload-ed soldiers,as if afterplowingthe roadswith heavyteams theywere sow-ing them home over comfortable breakfast-tables, with-out impediments of any kind to circumscriljctheir fancied operations ; it is so much easier tomanoeuvre and fight large armies around thecorner grocery, where thedestinies of the human racehave been so often discussedand settled, than to fight,march, and manceuvre inmud and rain, in the face ofa brave and vigilant enemy.To each baggage-wagonwere attached four or .six

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