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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nd, the campaign of the Army of Virginiacommand. was limited to the following objects : The reasons which induced me, in the first i. To cover the approaches to Washing-instance, to ask to be relieved from tin com- ton from any enemy advancing from themand of the Army of Virginia as heretofore direction of Richmond, and to oppose andset forth, were greatly intensified by the re- delay its advance to the last extremity so astreat of General McClellan to James River to give all the time possible for the with-and the bitter feelings and controversies which drawal of the Army of the Potomac from theit occasioned, and I again requested the Pres- James River. ident to relieve me from the command and 2. If no heavy forces of the enemy movedpermit me to return to the West. The utter north, to operate on their lines of communi-impossibility of sending General McClellan cation with Gordonsville and Charlottesville,anything like the reenforcements he asked so as to force Lee to make heavy detach
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house on the battle-field of cedar mountain where general c. s. winder died,(from a photograph.) General Winder, who was in command of Stonewall Jacksons old division, was struck by a shellwhile directing the movements of the batteries of his division.— Editor. for, the extreme danger to Washington in-volved in sending him even a fraction of thesmall force under my command, and theglaring necessity of concentrating in some ments from his force at Richmond and facili-tate to that extent the withdrawal of the Armyof the Potomac. General Halleck was of the opinion that the judicious manner and as rapidly as possible junction of the two armies could be made on these two armies, resulted in a determina- the line of the Rappahannock, and my orders tion to withdraw the Army of the Potomac to hold fast to my communications with Fred- from the James River and unite it with the ericksburg, through which place the Army of Army of Virginia. The (juestion of the com- the Potomac was to make its

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