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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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an a general engagement. Coxs Kanawha division which we saw fording Catoctin creek goesinto battle on the Federal right. It scales the rugged hillsides man-fully in the face of the foe. About nine oclock the bullets beginto fly, and the boys on both sides know that they are in for a harddays fighting. As the blue-coats climb the mountain-sides theirbatteries, which cannot climb, throw shells into the woods ahead ofthe advancing line,—a sort of artillery service mightily affected in theearly days of the war, and which was seldom of much aid to thefriends or injury to the foes of the artillerymen. The bullets begin to hum as soon as the blue-coats begin theascent. Pickets and sharpshooters, dodging behind trees and crouchedbehind stone walls, make the climb very unhealthy for the men of theKanawha division. But it is not until the summit is nearly reachedthat the fight becomes obstinate. There about a thousand Confeder-ates—men from North Carolina—have taken up a position behind a
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HOLDING TURNERS GAP. BATTLE FIELDS AND CAMP FIRES. 59 stone wall and are evidently ready to sell their lives dearly. Againstthis force Coxs Ohioans dash forward pluckily, but are beaten backmore than once. Sheltered behind their stone breastwork the Confed-erates can take the situation coolly, aim well, and hold their fire untilit can be delivered with telling effect. Cheering on the assailants is ayoung Ohio officer, the lieutenant-colonel of the 23d Ohio, one Ruth-erford B. Hayes, who in later years rose to be President of the UnitedStates. Just as he has led his regiment forward to the final chargewhich sweeps over the stone wall and breaks the enemys center, abullet strikes him down. But his men sweep on past him, cheering^breasting the storm of bullets, scaling the wall, clubbing their musketsand fighting hand to hand with the gray-coats they find there. Gen-eral Garland, the Confederate commander, falls mortally wounded. Hisstaff officers had repeatedly urged him not to expose h

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