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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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to one another, but re-mained silent. The suspense was intense.Was it to be a victory or a defeat. Was theplace a second time to be a • slaughter-pen ?Was the Sixth Corps to be driven into theriver ? Staff-officers waving their swords andhurrahing to the men dashed down the Tele-graph road. A blinding rain of shot piercedthe air. It was more than human naturecould face. The head of the column as itreached the lowest part of the decline neara fork in the road seemed to melt away. Manyfell; others bending low to the earth hurriedlysought shelter from the undulations of groundand the fences and the two or three woodenstructures along the road. Out of four hundredcomprising the Seventh Massachusetts, onehundred and fifty were killed and wounded.Colonel Johns, commanding, was severelywounded. Then, as if moved by a sudden im-pulse and nerved for a supreme effort, bothcolumns and the line in the field simultane-ously sprang forward. The stone wall was gained and themen werequicklyover it.
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• ■ RECl N1 PHOTOGRAPH. :The hrK.lc* on ii>por irhal remaini of the (Confederate trencheith build mart . and e pe-\, showing that many Union soldier* aimedduring I ! burg fan 11 battle.— 11 my horse was jumping through a partial open-ing one of the enemy, standing slightly to theleft and about a horses length from me, raisedhis gun and fired. The excitement of the hourmust have unnerved his hand, for the ballzipped harmlessly by to my right. In a sec-ond a bayonet was thrust into his breast byone of our men on my left. Along the wall ahand-to-hand fight took place, and the bay-onet and the butt of the musket were freelyused. The brilliant and successful charge oc-cupied perhaps ten or fifteen minutes, andimmediately after the wall was carried the en-emy became panic-stricken. In the flight theythrew away guns, knapsacks, pistols, swords,and everything that impeded their speed. Onethousand prisoners were taken, besides sev-eral battle-flags and pieces of

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