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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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emys safe retreat. Upon returning to camp I found rationsbeing issued and preparations for pursuit be-ing made, and that very afternoon \\ c struckour tents and took up our lines of march, withour faces turned hopefully towards Richmond.A sergeant belonging to a neighboring regi-ment, whose acquaintance I had formedbefore Yorktown, jocosely remarked, as hepassed me on the march, I shall meet youon the road to glory \ Later, in looking 774 RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE. over the rudehead-boardswhich wereused to markthe soldiers over to the Hampton road, and did not halLtill ele\-en in the e\ening, when we lay downin our blankets, bedraggled, wet, and tired,chewing hard-tack and the cud of reflection,the tenor of which was, Why did we comefor a soldier ? Before day-light we were on the march,plodding in the rain througl^;the mire. By daybreak we;came out on the edge of the ■dense woods in front of Fort (Magruder and its cordon of,redoubts stretching across 1the Peninsula, which is here I
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graves near A\illiamsburg,found his name. There was much talk ofburied torpedoes in front ofthe enemys Avorks, and it wasrumored that one officer andseveral men had been blownto atoms by them; also thatthe officer in command had aforce of Confederate prisonersat work removing them. Wesaw a number of sticks stuck in the groundboth inside and outside the earthworks, withv.hite rags attached, which v.ere said to indi-cate the location of the buried torpedoesalready discovered. Williamsburg is twelve miles from York-town, but the women and children, of whomwe were continually inquiring the distance,gave us very indefinite but characteristic re-plies. A comrade in Hookers division gaveme an account of his experiences about asfollows: Marching over the muddy roadlate in the afternoon, we found our fartheradvance prevented by a force which had pre-ceded us, and we halted in the mud by theroadside just as it began to rain. About fiveoclock we resumed our march by crossing OUTLINE MAP OF THE P

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