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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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however, was soon silenced.This days operations of Smiths division wereknown as the action at (loldings Farm. The position held by General Smiths divis-ion was about one and one-half miles fromthe Gainess Mill field; and possibly becausethe interval was filled with dense timber, nota gun of the (iainess Mill battle was heard bythe troops in our vicinity. The next morning, the 28th of June, Gen-eral Smiths division was moved to the rearand left of the clearing of Goldings Farm ;General Slocums division remaining to therear and right of Smith, where it had takenposition the night before. During this retro-grade movement the enemy kept up a livelycannonade from the lefi, front, and right, do-ing wonderfully little harm. That evening thecorps commanders were assembled at McClel-lans headtiuarters at the Trent house. Thecommanding general announced to us his pur-po.se to begin a movement to the James Riveron the next day, and each corps commanderwas furnished with a map on which were laid
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REAR-GUARD FIGHTING AT SAVAGES STATION. 457 down the positions that the respective corpswere to hold until the next evening, whenall the troops remaining near their present po-sitions were to move across the White OakSwamp en route for the James. The assemblybroke up about two oclock in the morning,and each corps commander had all the in-formation necessary to determine his actionfor the 29th, should nothing unforeseenoccur. The relative position of the Sixth Corps the White Oak bridge than the intrenched linein front of Fair Oaks and Goldings Farm (de-scribed above), and was nearly parallel. Itwas much shorter than the old line, its leftreaching nearly to the swamj), and its rightto the brink of the Chickahominy hills. Thissecond line was about three-(iuarters of a milein front of Savages Station on the \ork RiverRailroad, which had been the depot for un-loading and storing supplies for the troojjsthat held the old line, and where had been

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