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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on, which they reachedthat day, greatly weariedafter a hard march over muddy roads, in themidst of a heavy rain. That night, freed fromcare and oblivious of danger, all slept a longsleep; and they woke the next morning withthe clear sun, a happier, brighter, and strongerbody of men than that which all the da\-before, depressed and fatigued, had shiveredin the rain. The conduct of the rear-guard was intrustedto Colonel Averell, commander of the ThirdPennsylvania Cavalry, sustained by ColonelBuchanan, with his brigade of regulars, andthe Sixty-seventh New York Regiment. Notrying trust was ever better bestowed or moresatisfactorily fulfilled. At daybreak ColonelVol. XXX.—67. Averell found himself accidentally without ar-tillery to protect his command in its difficulttask of preventing an attack before our rearwas well out of range. He at once arrangedhis cavalry in bodies to represent horse bat-teries, and, mancjeuvring tiieni to create theimpression that tliey were artillery ready for
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berdans sharp-shooters (of morells division) skirmishing in themeadow wheat-field. action, he secured himself from attack untilthe rest of the army and trains had passedsufficiently to the rear to permit him to retirerapidly without molestation. His stratagemwas successful, and without loss he rejoinedthe main body of the army that night. Thusended the memorable ** Seven Days battles,\\ hich, for severity and tor stubborn resistanceand endurance of hardships by the contestants,were not surpassed during the war. Each an-tagonist accomplished the results for which heaimed : one insuring the temporary relief ofRichmond ; the other gaining security on thenorth bank of the James, where the Unionarmv. if our civil and militarv authorities were 630 THE LAST OF THE SEVEN DAYS BATTLES.

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