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Title: The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery
Publisher: Hartford : O.D. Case & Co. Chicago : Geo. & C.W. Sherwood
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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ock with a dense fog, coveringfor a time the formation of our col-umns of assault; while a portion ofour guns were firing wildly and use-lessly ; but at length a bright sundispelled the mist, and, at 11 a. m.,Couchs division, on our right, emerg-ing from among the battered build-ings, moved swiftly to the assault. Braver men never smiled at deaththan those who climbed Maryes Hillthat fatal day; their ranks plowedthrough and torn to pieces by Rebelbatteries even in the process of for-mation ; and when at heavy cost theyhad reached the foot of the hill, theywere confronted by a solid stonewall, four feet high, from behindwhich a Confederate brigade of in-fantry mowed them down like grass,exposing but their heads to our bul-lets, and these only while themselves firing. Never did men fight better •Night of Dec. 10-11. • Among the vohinteers first to cross was or die, alas! more fruitlessly than did Rev. Arthur B. Fuller, Chaplain 16th Mass., whowas killed by a ri(lo-.shot. Dec. 11-12.
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HEROIC ASSAULTS ON MARTES HEIGHTS. 345 most of Hancocks corps, especiallyMeagliers Irish brigade, composedof the eSd, 69th, and 88th New York,the 28th Massachusetts, and the 116thPennsylvania, which dashed itself re-peatedly against those impregnableheights, until two-thirds of its num-ber strewed the ground; when theremnant fell back to a position ofcomparative safety, and were suc-ceeded as they had been supported,by other brigades and divisions; eachto be exposed in its turn to likepitiless, useless, hopeless slaughter.Thus Hancocks and Frenchs corpswere successively sent up againsttliose slippery heights, girdled withbatteries, rising, tier above tier, toits crest, all carefully trained uponthe approaches from Fredericksburg;while that fatal stone wall—so strongthat even artillery could make noimpression on it—completely shel-tered Barksdales brigade, which, sosoon as our charo;ino- columns camewithin rifle-shot, poured into theirfaces the deadliest storm of musketry,Howards d

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