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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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a gain of efficiency, could havebeen reduced by a dozen or fifteen batteries. Early in June Lees army began to move,and by the 8th, Longstreets and Ewells corpshad joined Stuarts cavalry at Culpeper. A.P. Hills corps was left in observation atFredericksburg; and so skillfully were thechanges concealed that Hooker, believingthat all the enemys infantry were still nearthat town, ordered Pleasonton to beat upStuarts camps at Culpeper, and get informa-tion as to the enemys position and proposedmovements. For these purposes he gave nS THE BATTLE OE THE EIRST DAY AT GETTYSBURG. Pleasonton two small brigades of infantry,3000 men under Generals Ames and Russell,which carried his total force to 10,981. Theywere echeloned along the railroad whichcrosses the river at Rappahannock Station,and runs thence ten miles to Culpeper. Aboutmidway is Brandy Station, a few hundredyards north of which is Fleetwood Hill. Di-viding his force equally, Pleasonton orderedBuford and Ames to cross at Beverlys, and
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LUTHERAN CHURCH ON CHAMBERSBURG STREET, USED AS AHOSPITAL. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY TIPTON.) Gregg, Duffle, and Russell at Kellys Ford.All were to march to Brandy Station, Duffiebeing thrown out to Stevensburg to watch theFredericksburg road. Then the whole forcewas to move on Culpeper. The crossing wasordered for June 9th; but on the 8th, GeneralLee having sent Jenkinss brigade as Ewellsadvance into the valley, reviewed the otherfive brigades of Stuart, 10,292 combatants, onthe plains near Brandy Station. After thereview they were distributed in the neighbor-hood with a view to their crossing the Rap-pahannock on the 9th, Stuart establishing hisheadquarters at Meet wood. Accident hadthus disposed his forces in the most favorablemanner to meet Heasontons convergingmovements. At daybreak Buford crossed and drove theenemys pickets from the ford back to the mainbody, near St. Jamess church. Stuart, on the first report of the crossing, sent Robertsonsbrigade toward Kellys to watch that ford,

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