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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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ake outtheir uniforms, but I could see three of our flags, andthese caused me to hesitate; I came to a halt, peeringinto the darkness to make sure, when a bullet whistledby me, and then came the rebel yell. The linecharged up the hill towards our guns, and I led it !Lying down upon my horses neck, 1 gave him thespur, and the yells of the Johnnies behind furtherStimulated him, so that we got over the ground prettylively. Rut with the report of the first shot fired at me,General Pleasonton had opened fire, and those twenty-two guns belched forth destruction at a fearfully rapidrate. Although lying down On my horse, I kept an eye-on lli- guns, and guided my horse between the (lashes,and in less lime than it takes to tell it, I was on thesafe side of them. Il was load and fire at will for someminutes; the enemy was mowed down in heaps; theycould make no headway against such a cyclone, andran hack down the slope to the cover of the woods. THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF CHANCELLORSVILLE. 759
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SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE AT THE JUNCTION OF(BY EDWIN FORBES, FROM HI! the army. He would have seen General Hookerand his staff getting what troops he could toprevent the routed Eleventh Corps from de-moralizing the rest of the army, and the fatalposition which that portion of the army occu-pied rendered it an easy task to have crushedit. Neither the Second Corps nor the TwelfthCorps was in position to have defended itselfa gainst an attack by Jackson from Hazel Grove.For half an hour General Jackson had theArmy of the Potomac at his mercy. Why hehalted to re-form his troops in the woods, instead But still the canister was poured into them, and a sec-ond attempt to charge the guns failed. Soon Sicklesscorps moved from its advanced position and interposedbetween us and the woods; parties sent out over thefield which had been swept by our guns found the deadand dying lying in heaps. Old artillery officers haveinformed me that they never before heard such rapidfiring as occurred at that eng

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