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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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M.T TIKJSF. MII.KS OVT OF THK MlD ! RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE. 771 After leaving Big Bethel we began to feelthe weight of-our knapsacks. Castaway over-coats, blankets, parade-coats, and shoes werescattered along the route in reckless profu-sion, beingdroppedby theoverload-ed soldiers,as if afterplowingthe roadswith heavyteams theywere sow-ing them home over comfortable breakfast-tables, with-out impediments of any kind to circumscriljctheir fancied operations ; it is so much easier tomanoeuvre and fight large armies around thecorner grocery, where thedestinies of the human racehave been so often discussedand settled, than to fight,march, and manceuvre inmud and rain, in the face ofa brave and vigilant enemy.To each baggage-wagonwere attached four or .six
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• FEDERAL WATER-BATTERYIN FRONT OF VORKTOWN.3.— CONFEDERATE WATER-BAT-TERV, CALLED BATTERYMAGRUDER, VORKTOWN.(FROM PHOTOGRAPHS.) 4.— AN ANGLE OFTHE CONFEDERATEFORTIFICATIONS ATYORKTOWN. for a harvest. I lightened my knapsack with-out much regret, for I could not see the senseof carrying a blanket or overcoat when 1 couldpick one up almost anywhere along the march.Very likely the same philosophy actuated thosewho preceded me or came after. The coloredpeople along our route occupied themselves inpicking up this scattered property. They hadon their faces a distrustful look, as if uncertainof the tenure of their harvest. The march upthe Peninsula seemed very slow, yet it was im-possible to increase our speed, owing to thebad condition of the roads. I learned in timethat marching on paper and the actual marchmade two very different impressions. I caneasily understand and excuse our firesideheroes, who fought their or our battles at mules, driven usually by a colored man, withonly one

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