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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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the Dan-ube, while his enemy was unable to preventit; how his further strategy of detaching thetwo corps of Bernadotte and Massena, toattack the enemys weak point, was madesuccessful by the splendid tactics of Mac- part of the month of April, 1863, to undertakean offensive campaign with the Army of thePotomac against the Army of Northern Vir-ginia, under General Lee. The two armies faced each other: Lees,numbering about 60,coo men,being at Fredericksburg.and the Army of the Potomac, num-bering about 130,000 men, at Falmouth, on thenorth side of the Rappahannock RiveroppositeFredericksburg. The plan of his campaign wasbased on the same principles of war whichNapoleon had applied at Wagram. He di-rected three corps of the army, the First, theThird, and the Sixth,comprising 59,000 men.under the command of General Sedgwick,to cross the Rappahannock River belowFredericksburg, and hold Lees army in thatposition, while he moved secretly and withcelerity three corps, the Fifth, the Eleventh,
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ft /^-T^t^ir I BOM A wcitom<awi nv ijkaiiv. THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF CHANCELLORSVILLE. 749 and Twelfth, numbering 42,000 men, up theriver, crossing and concentrating them atChancellorsville, ten miles west of Freder-icksburg, with the purpose of moving downupon General Lees army to take it in rearand flank— two divisions of the Second Corpsbeing placed to cover Bankss Ford, the thirddivision being left at Falmouth, while a brigadeand battery were stationed at United StatesFord to facilitate the crossing. The CavalryCorps, with the exception of one small brigadeof three regiments and a battery of horse artil-lery, which was left under my command with The left wing of the army, under GeneralSedgwick, was ordered to cross the Rappa-hannock below Fredericksburg, on the morn-ing of the 29th ; its duty was to keep theenemy as long as possible before Fredericks-burg, to pursue him if he attempted to fallback on Richmond, but to take possession ofhis works and his line of retreat if

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