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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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line ad-vancing, which he thought at first was theexpected succor from Sheridan, but he soonheard that it was a rebel column marchingupon him. His anxiety for his left was nowchanging into painful alarm for his right. Hechose a strong position on a spur of Mission- the commanding General, after a vain effort to assist the foremostof the crowd, as they came up to his position, and the command-ers of the Twentieth and Twenty-first corps (McCook andCrittenden), were carried away by the living tide, and cut offfrom the remainder of the army.—D. H. H. t Bragg had great respect and affection for the first lieutenantof his battery. The tones of tenderness with which he spoke ofOld Tom are still well remembered by me. Both of these illustrious Southerners dropped dead of heartdisease: Thomas in San Francisco, in 1870, and Bragg in Gal-veston, in 1876. Did the strain upon them in those terribledays at Chickamauga hasten their death? — D. H H. 95S CHICKAMACGA—THE GREAT BATTLE OF THE WEST.
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rER THE FIRST DAY S BATTLE ary Ridge, running east and west, placed uponit Brannans division with portions of two bri-gades of Xegleys; Woods division (Critten-dens) was placed on Brannans left. Thesetroops, with such as could be rallied from thetwo broken corps, were all he had to confrontthe forces of Longstreet, until Steedmans di-vision of Grangers corps came to his reliefabout three p. M. Well and nobly did Thomasand his gallant troops hold their own againstf<. s flushed with past victory and confident offuture success. His new line was nearly atright angles with the line of log-works on the • side of the Rossville road, his right beingan almost impregnable wall-like hill, his leftnearly an inclosed fortification. The only surehope of success against him was to get in his ■ by movii - far enough to our right toavoid the breastworks on his left. This wasJo all who had been in the fight thenight before, as it was then seen that our rightleft,rod Johnsons three brigades in Lo

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