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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (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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d tho lower part of theFrench came in while I was talking. He was town on the same evening, and the town wasrather late, and in his bluff way exclaimed: not secured without desperate fighting. I Is this a Methodist camp meeting ? went over the next morning, Friday the 12th, The heights on the morning of the nth, with Hancocks and Frenchs divisions. Thebefore the bridges were thrown, did not offer remainder of Willcoxs corps crossed and oc-a very animated scene,because the troops were cupied the lower part of the town. There wasmostly hidden. The bombardment for the pur- considerable looting. I placed a provost guardpose of dislodging the sharp-shooters who at the bridges, with orders that nobody shouldunder cover of the houses were delaying the go back with plunder. An enormous pile ofbridge-making, was terrific, and the smoke booty was collected there by evening. Butsettled down and veiled the scene. After there came a time when we were too busy to 632 SCJ/NER-S RIGHT GRAND DIVISION.
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WHERE FOURTEEN BRIGADES CHARGED AT MARYEs HILL. (FROM A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH.) The portico of the Marye mansion is faintly marked amongthe trees of the hill in the middle background. The road on theright is the end of Hanover street and the beginning of the Tele-graph road, by which most of the attacking troops crossed thecanal or ditch, and, filing to the left, formed line under the lowbank. In the middle ground, to the left of the road, is seen thesquare brick house mentioned by General Couch. Part of thetroops crossed the canal by a street on the left parallel with Han-over street, and a few waded. Most of the dead lay a shortdistance beyond the brick house. Colonel John R. Brooke, ofHancocks division, was sent on the fourth day after the battle guard it. and I suppose it was finally carriedoff by another set of plunderers. The troops ofthe two corps bivouacked that night in thestreets and were not permitted to make fires.Late on that day we had orders to be readyto cross Hazel Run,

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