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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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river on his horse. The Federal loss on that sad day was one thousand men,three hundred of whom were drowned or killed in battle :the rest were wounded or taken prisoners. Somebody wasto blame for this terrible defeat: so General Stone was ac-cused, and even arrested and imprisoned; but he was after-wards acquitted of the charge, released, and served withcredit under General Banks. The Confederate who .shall write a history of the battle ofBalls Bluff for boys and girls, although he will call it thebattle of Leesburg, will blush to tell these things, we hope,and will only say, We won the fight, without giving theparticulars. In Colonel Edward D. Bakers death the country mourneda hero. Charles Sumner has called him the Prince Rupertof battle. Left an orphan at an early age, he supportedhimself and a younger brother by weaving. Like all menwho have become truly great, he spent every spare hour inreading. While still young, the brothers came to Illinoisand found their way to Springfield.
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BATTLE OF BALLS BLUFF. iS6i.) Old Men for Coniicily YotcjigMenfor War. 149 Edward, the eldest, soon began the study of the law, andbecame one of the leading lawyers of the West. He wassent to Congress, where he was distinguished for his honestyof purpose and gentle manners. Later he removed to Cali-fornia, and afterward to Oregon. When Sumter was firedupon, he raised the celebrated California Regiment, whichremained under his command till he fell pierced with sixghastly wounds. In his heroic death, Colonel Baker was not alone. Lieu- VOLUNTEER HOSPITAL. tenant Putnam, of whom the city of Boston may well beproud, blameless and unselfish in his life, was mortallywounded. The surgeon hastened to him ; but he refusedeven to allow his wound to be examined until others hadbeen attended to, since he knew that he must die, whilesome other poor fellow could thus be saved. Ten days after the disaster and defeat at Balls Bluff, Gen-eral Scott, who had become too aged and infirm for activeduty, re

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