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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (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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vere fight that afternoon, I need not indicate. To say that General Porters non-action during that whole day was wholly unexpected and disappointing,and that it provoked severe comment on all hands, is to state the facts mildly. Every indication during the night of the29th and up to ten oclock on the morning of the 30th pointed to the retreat of the enemy from our front. Paroled prisoners of our own army, taken on the evening of the 29th, and who came into our lines on the morning of the 30th, reported the enemy retreating during the whole night in the direction of andalong the Warrenton pike (since confirmed by Longstreets report). Generals McDowell and Heintzelman, who reconnoitered the position held by the enemys left on the evening of the 29th, also confirmed this statement.They reported to me the evacuation of the sepositions by the enemy, and that there was every indication of their retreat in the direction of Gainesville. On the morning of the30th, as may be easily believed, our troops.
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MONUMENT TO THE UNION SOLDIERS WHO FELL AT GROVETON AUGUST 28, 29 AND 30, 1862. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN SOON AFTER THE MONUMENT WAS ERECTED IN 1865.) This view was taken from the edge of the railway cut, looking toward the Union lines. The shaft is of brown sandstone, and in design and material is like the monument erected on the Henry hill at the same time. Vandals have removed the shot and shell that were fixed with mortar to the base and to the top of the shaft; every vestige of the inclosing fence has been carried off, and the monument is partly hidden by the four evergreens which were planted at the four comers. In May, 1884, we found a Union canteen on the well-grazed sward near the monument. The field behind the railway cut and behind the embankment, east of the cut, were even then strewn with the tins of cartridge boxes, rusty camp utensils, and bits of accouterments.— Editor.

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