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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
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other misleading. He learned thatJackson had gone to Harpers Ferry — a truththat he must have learned from his own scoutsand spies and the roar of artillery in his ownears. The cannonading could be distinctlyheard at Frederick, and told that some one wasbeleaguering Harpers Ferry. The misleadinginformation was that Longstreet was at Boons-boro. The map of the battle-field of SouthMountain, prepared in 1872, ten years after the fight, by the United States Bureau ofFngineers, represents ten regiments and onebattalion under Longstreet at the foot of themountain on the morning of the 14th of Sep-tember, 1862. Longstreet was then an ordinarydays march from that point. In fact, after theremoval of Colquitts brigade, about sevena. m., there was not a Southern soldier at thefoot of the mountain until three p. M., whenCaptain Park of the Twelfth Alabama Regi-ment was sent there with forty men. GeneralMcClellan in his report says : The force op- THE BATTLE OE SOUTH MOUNTAIN, OR BOONSBORO. 145
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VIEW FROM TURNERS GAP, LOOKING SOUTH-EAST.— SEE MAP ON THE PREVIOUS PAGE. (FROM A RECENT PHOTOGRAPH.) The point of view is a little to the left of the Mountain House, nowthe home of Mrs. Dahlgren, widow of Admiral Dahlgren. Rodeswas first posted on the hill, the slope of which is seen on the left; posed to me was D. H. Hills corps (fifteenthousand) and a part if not the whole of Long-streets, and perhaps a portion of Jacksons,—probably thirty thousand in all. (Page 13,Volume XIX.) The mistake of the Federalcommander in regard to General Longstreetwas natural, since he was misled by the LostDispatch. But it seems strange that the UnitedStates Engineers should repeat the blunder,with the light of history thrown for ten yearsupon all the incidents of the battle. It was in-comprehensible to us of the losing side thatthe men who charged us so boldly and repulsedour attacks so successfully should let slip thefruits of victory and fall back as though de-feated. The prisoners taken were f

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