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Title: Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863)
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis J(ohn), 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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r Stuart.The battle had been short, but it was bloody. About 600 fell on eachside, and thereafter the sneering question Who ever saw a deadcavalryman? was not heard in either army. This engagement in no way checked Lees movement toward Penn-sylvania, and he continued to withdraw his troops from in front ofHooker and send them north by way of the Shenandoah valley. Theseemingly foolhardy manner in which he dispersed his army suggeststhat he must have had great confidence in the inertness of his adver-sary. On the 13th of June part of Ewells division was at Martinsburg,West Virginia, and part at Winchester, Longstreet and Stuart were atCulpepper, and Hill was still in front of Hooker. It was on this daythat President Lincoln wrote to Hooker. If the head of Lees army is at Martinsburg, and the tail of it onthe plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsvillc, the animalmust be very slim somewhere—could you not break him? Good military advice this, and seemingly in accordance with
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CHARGE OF UNION CAVALRY, BRANDY STATION. BATTLE FIELDS AND CAMP FIRES. 201 Hookers already expressed ideas. But for some reason or other thegeneral took no notice of the suggestion at this time. It was now evident to all that the Confederates had begun agreat northward march; indeed, among the papers which Pleasontonsmen had captured at Stuarts headquarters, were letters and memor-anda outlining the routes to be followed in the invasion of Penn-sylvania. Whether it was Lees purpose, however, to swing aroundand take Washington in the rear, or make a descent upon Baltimore,was still doubtful, and the Army of the Potomac was accordinglyconcentrated around Manassas Junction to wait there until some move-ment should reveal the enemys true purpose. The Federals were not left long in doubt. The telegraph soonbegan to bring to Washington the reports of Ewells progress down theShenandoah Valley. On the 15th of June, one portion of his troopsdrove the Union forces under Milroy from Winchester a

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