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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (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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on and two as a reserve, the whole un-der a colonel as chief of artillery. The totalnumber of batteries was sixty-nine, of gunstwo hundred and eighty-seven, of which thirtywere with the cavalry. With few exceptionsthe batteries were of four guns each. Thearmy was commanded by a full general, eacharmy-corps, except the artillery, by a lieuten- generals and twenty-nine colonels. The aver-age strength of army corps and divisions wasabout half that of the Confederates, a factthat should be kept in mind, or the termswill be misleading. The cavalry had beenraised under disadvantages. Men accustomedto the use of both horses and arms were com-paratively few in the North and required train-ing in everything that was necessary to makea trooper. The theater of war was not con-sidered favorable for cavalry, and it was dis-tributed to the various headquarters for escortduty, guards, and orderlies. It was not until1863 that it was united under General Pleas-onton in a corps consisting of three weak
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GETTYSBURG FROM OAK HILL. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY TIPTON.) Oak Hill is a mile north-west of Gettysburg, and the view here is south-east, showing the county almshouse on the left, then CulpsHill, then the college, and, to the right of its cupola, the observatory on Cemetery Hill.— Editor. ant-general, each division by a major-general,each brigade, except two, by brigadier-gener-als. Nearly all these officers were veterans ofproved ability and many had served in theMexican war. In the Army of the Potomac the dischargeoffifty-eightregimentshadreduced its strengthsince Chancellorsville by twenty-five thousandeffectives, partly replaced by five brigadesnumbering less than twelve thousand men.At the battle of Gettysburg the seven army-corps* consisted of nineteen infantry divisions,seven of which had two brigades, eleven hadthree, and one had four: in all fifty-one bri-gades. The army and army-corps were com-manded by major-generals, the divisions bythree major- and sixteen brigadier-genera

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