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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : 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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Emory to fall back and take positionon the right of the Sixth. These orders werepromptly executed, and from the moment the tideof battle struck the heroic Sixth Corps the currentof Confederate victory was stayed; for althoughthey withdrew first to a point west of Middletown,and afterwards to one north of that place, theyfought with undaunted energy, and, making Earlypay dearly for every foot gained, finally broughthim to a stand. But at first a great victory seemed secured tohim. As soon as he saw Crooks intrenchmentscarried by Kershaws rush, he rode to the left,where Wharton and the artillery had arrived, andthere heard the welcome racket of Gordons mus-ketry in the rear of the Union lines. The sun wasrising, and it must have seemed to him the sun ofAusterlitz, as he ordered Wharton forward andriding in advance of him over the stream metGordon on the opposite hill. The success had notbeen gained gratis, for Gordon reported to his chiefthat the fighting had been severe. But Crook and
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GENERAL HORATIO >.. WRIGHT. CEDAR CREEK 321 Emory, so far as he could judge, were in complete chap. xiv.rout, and lie anticipated an easy task in the demo-lition of the Sixth Corps. Ramseur and Pegram oct.ig.isw.told him their divisions were in line confronting it,but that there was a vacancy on their right whichshould be filled; he ordered Whartons fresh divi-sion forward for that purpose. But in a very short »Memoir oftime, to his great disappointment, Whartons di- Year ortnevision, he says, came back in some confusion. p. us.They had gone gallantly in, expecting to share inthe pursuit of fugitives, but they were greeted witha withering fire from Gettys division — undercommand of Vermont (Lewis A.) Grant — beforewhich they staggered; upon this Grants troopsrushed out from their position and drove the Con-federates headlong down the hill; Earlys artillerynow opened with a furious fire, which checked thecounter-charge. General Bidwell, who had madethe gallant sortie from the w

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