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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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ndHooker that of Massena. The right wing of the army crossed KellysFord on the morning of the 29th, and theEleventh and Twelfth Corps reached Ger-manna Ford that evening. I had the advanceof this column with two regiments of cavalryand a battery of horse artillery; the thirdregiment of the cavalry brigade I sent withthe Fifth Corps to Elys Ford. In the afternoon, at Germanna Ford, I sur-prised and captured a picket of some fifty ofStuarts cavalry soldiers. With them was anengineer officer belonging to Stuarts staff.()n searching the party, which is done withall prisoners, I found on this engineer officera very bulky volume, which proved to be adiary which he had been keeping throughoutthe war. I spent the greater part of the nightin reading it, in hopes of finding somethingthat would be of advantage to us; nor was Idisappointed. This diary stated that in ^thefirst week in March there had been a councilof war held at General Stuarts headquarters,at which council Generals Jackson. A. P.
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THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF CHANCELLORS) ILLE. Hill, Ewell, and Stuart attended. They werein conference over five hours, and came tothe decision that the next battle would be ator near Chancellorsville, and that that positionmust be prepared. The next day, the 30th of April, I movedon towards Chancellorsville, and at oneoclock in the day I captured a courier ororderly from General Lee, who had a dispatchfrom Lee, dated at Fredericksburg, noon ofthat day, and addressed to Major-GeneralMcLaws, stating that he had just been in-formed that the enemy had concentrated inforce near Chancellorsville, inquiring why hehad not been kept advised, and saying thathe wished to see McLaws as soon as possibleat headquarters. At two oclock, p. m., one hour later, I re-ported to General Hooker at Chancellors-ville, and submitted to him the diary andGeneral Lees dispatch, both of which he re-tained, and I suggested that we had evidentlysurprised General Lee by our rapid move-ments across the river, and

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