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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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unfavorablecondition of the air; and I supposed for sometime that we were hearing only an artilleryduel. But a staff officer was sent to ascertainthe facts. He returned at four oclock withintelligence that our infantry as well as artil-lery had been engaged an hour, and all werepressing on vigorously. As no approach oftroops from beyond the Chickahominy hadbeen discovered, I hoped that the enemysbridges were imi:)assable, and therefore desiredGeneral Smith to move towards Seven Pines,to be ready to cooperate with our right. Hemo\ed promptly along the Nine-mile road,and his leading regiment soon became engagedwith the Federal skirmishers and their reserves,and in a few minutes drove them off. On my way to Longstreets left, to combinethe action of the two bodies of troops, I passedthe head of General Smiths column near FairOaks, and saw the camps of about a brigadein the angle between the Nine-mile road andthe York River Railroad, and the rear ofa column of infantry moving in quick time
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hKI.ATlVB POSITIONS AT THE HKCINNING OK THE ATTACK, AND AFTER DARK ON MAY 31. rDorinjf «he mriTnine f May 3». Hugert iWvavm w.« on the railro.-i>l a mile out of Richmond. About the snmc time Longstreefs division was atthe I.rr. -ftti- Wili.in, )/iiri( anl Charic* City road«; Hills divi»ion on the WilliamsliurK road half a mile in advance of Lonestreet: and MaerudersaiKl nc-ir Old Tavcm. ide on the Inion ilrm, Caseys division was three-quarters i.f .1 mile in .-idvancc of Seven Pines. He was supported onbit r .riifadc (of Couchs division j at Fair Oaks Station, and Iwhinrl him Ijy the remainder of Couchs division at Seven Pines ■»d _ :. These two diviMons of Keycss corji* were reinforccd late in the afternoon, near Seven Pines, by Kearnys division, which, at the ;ii.-,e of .l.c .iV-a-k., was f«:ar Savages Station ; Couchs trjfijis at pair Oaks fell back a short distance to meet Sedgwicks division approach-ioj from th« firaprvtne l^dife, and l«fore dark recovered a part of

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