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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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acrifice of life, excepting a few feet ofground, more or less, watered by the best blood in the land.Nationals and Confederates lay side by side, enemies no/onger. There had been no lack of courage. The rebelsgallandy attacked and defended : the Federals bravely defend-ed and attacked. Although claimed as a Union victory, inreality the fight at Antietam had been but a drawn battle.A field of waving corn had been the scene of the mos^fearful bloodshed. Between the rows, the dead lay heapedupon each other. In an open space, says CaptainNoyes, I saw bodies, dressed in the rebel gray, lying inranks so regular, that Death the reaper must have mowedthem down. A Massachusetts drummer-boy lay ill in hospital after thebattle of Antietam. No doubt he often wished for home inthe long hours, but he never complained. One day he wasgiven some blackberry cordial, and was told that it had beensent by the Young Mens Christian Association of Boston.The boys face brightened; and he said, May be, sir, my
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I862.J i5roRen Lnatns. mother made this : she was always good. Anyhow,bless you and them that sent it ! The day after the battle, when a supply-train arrivecrations were distributed, an officer met the captaincompany, who raised a large piece of pork on his ssaying, Look here ! This is the allowance of pork fcompany. I shall have to eat it all, for I am the onlleft. The loss on both sides was not less than twentthousand. Next morning before light, the boys in blue ateslender breakfast, and made ready for a second day of 1They knew that some advantage had been gained, ancwere determined not to let Lee escape again : besideshad been joined by fourteen thousand fresh troops. Biday went by without any order to attack. Anotherdragged on, and in the morning Lee was gone. Thihard. What, they asked themsehes, had been the usethis patriotism and suffering and death ? For a long time the President had been turning o^his mind the subject of the emancipation or freedom cslaves. At first he was no

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