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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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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bridge, and while waiting for the river to fall,he strongly intrenched himself against attack.General Meade arrived in his front on the 10th, July, i863.and for two days, with the utmost caution, advancedinch by inch until the two armies were less than amile apart. On the 12th he announced his intentionto attack the enemy the next day unless some-thing intervenes to prevent it, for the reason thatdelay will strengthen the enemy and will not in-crease my force. Unfortunately something did in- ibid., P. 91.tervene; it was a council of war. On the night of the12th he called his corps commanders together, and a Meadelarge majority unqualifiedly opposed the projected tojSy\e3C,kattack. Meade himself favored it, but he was sup- p. 91. ported only by General Wadsworth who, as a civil-ian general, did not impose his opinion with muchauthority upon the council, and by General Howard, 276 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Chap. IX. Warren,Testimony. Report Committee on Conduct of the War, 1865. Vol. I., p. 381.
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POSITIONS JULY 13, 1863. whose bad luck at Chancellorsville and Gettysburghad deprived him of much of his influence. In theface of this opposition Meade felt himself too newin command of the army to disregard it entirely;he therefore resolved to pass the next day in athorough series of reconnaissances, and if he couldfind a weak place in the enemys line to assault it;he announced this decision in a dispatch to theWar Department and received in reply a vehementmessage signed by Halleck but evidently inspiredby the President himself. You are strong enoughto attack and defeat the enemy before he can effecta crossing. Act upon your own judgment and make GETTYSBURG 277 Part I.p. 92. your generals execute your orders. Call no coun- chap. ix.cil of war.1 It is proverbial that councils of war \;viy°Lnever fight. . . Do not let the enemy escape. The next morning, July 14, Meades earliest recon-naissances proved how just had been the fearsof the Government. Lees lines were found de-serted ; he

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