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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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<,OPlKIGHT_ 1311, PATRIOT PuB CO THE PLANS THAT FAILED From his liead(;uart(rs at the lhilli;is house, liuniside directed tlie disastrous maneuvers of his armyduring tlie hat tie of DecemlxT llUh. On December i)tli Burnside called his generals together and per-sisted in his )ilan lor a direct assault upon Lee, who was strongly entrenched in a position of his own choos-ing. Tlie shuigliter at Maryes Heights on the 13th i)roved him in the wrong. Nevertheless, Burnsideon the field that night gave orders to renew the attack the next morning. Returning to the Philli))s houseabout 1 .\.M., he found among the others Colonel Rush C. Hawkins, who had come at the reque.st ofGenerals Willeox, Humiihrcys, Meade, and Getty, who had all faced that terrible fire on TelegraphRoad. A conference ensued in lh< i)resence of Sumner, Hooker, and Franklin, and Burnside was atlast dissuaded.
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THE UNLUCKY HEADQUARTERS The ruins of the Phillips house stand as an aftermath of Burnside-s unfortunate career at the hea. of theArmy of the Potomae. The wisest decision that he made in that house was in the early nu.nnng o Decem-ber 14th-not to renew the attack. In the old n,ansion he had formed the fatal plan ol d.rect a.saul .Here also he issued his order for the famous mud n,arch by which, in the dead of wnUcr. •-^^^ retrieve failure bv putting his army in n.otion to flank Lee, January 21. 1863. All Ins efforts had comto naught, and not one of his generals longer agreed with him. His resignation from the connn dfollowed on January .6th. In February the Phillips house was set on fire, and ,n the .-•--;preceding page the photographer has caught the Federals (now commanded by Hooker) trjm,extinguish the flames.

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