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Title: Popular history of the civil war
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Cheney, C. Emma (Clara Emma)
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Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t to comprehend the whole truth. The battle of Antietam was claimed as a Union victory, andof course McClellan was expected to follow up his advantage.Still he lingered, excusing his delay on the ground that thearmy was not prepared with shoes or clothing for a longmarch. The rebel army was half naked when it advancedinto Maryland. While he was doubting and debating, JebStuarts cavalry made another raid around the Army of thePotomac. This time it even penetrated Pennsylvania as faras Chambersburg, doing much damage to public and privateproperty, and again escaping across the river into Virginia. President Lincoln visited the army while it lingered onthe banks of the Antietam. He was thinner, and looked morecareworn, and was more silent than usual. A few days later,impatient of the slow progress of McClellan, the Presidentrelieved him from duty, and turned his command over toMajor-General Ambrose E. Burnside, who accepted his ap-pointment reluctantly, for McClellan was his warm friend.
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I862.I Broken Chains. 305 As on a former occasion, McClellan received the news withcalmness, and behaved with great good temper toward hissuccessor. Burnside assumed the command of the Army ofthe Potomac on the loth of November. Both armies weremoving southward at the time, toward the Rappahannock,and were separated only by the Blue Ridge Mountains,Burnside reached Fredericksburg first; but his pontoonbridges did not get there for eight days. In the mean time,Lee had crossed the river, fortified Fredericksburg, andre-enforced the garrison. Sumner had begged to be allowedto cross by fords at once ; but this Burnside was afraid to do,because the Confederate strength already there was notknown. No thought of flanking the enemy seems to haveentered Burnsides mind. He therefore prepared to attackLee in his present intrenched position. The building ofthe pontoon bridges began. Owing to sharpshooters onthe bluff banks opposite, the work was done with the utmostdifficulty. At last the Federal

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