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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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CONFEDERATE QUAKER GUNS. (View of fortifications after their evacuation by the Confederates in the spring of 1862. The muzzle of tlie log was painted black and the breech was covered with brush to conceal its character from observation by balloon.) mental or ultra-dramatic, explanation—themagic wrought by the delay or arrival of someforce, or the death or coming of somebody, THE BATTLE OE BULL RUN. or any other single magical event — wherebyhistory is easily caught, rather than to seekan understanding of that which is but thegradual result of the operation of many adopted, however, favored above all thingsthe easy execution of the offensive operationsI had designed and ordered against his leftflank and rear at Centreville. His turning col- Jj^v-v^ ^ -- -X J - -- .WJ^ v-v^. forces, both of opposing design and actual umn—eighteen thousand strong, and presum-collision, modified more or less by the falls ably his best troops — was thrown off by a long
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CONFEDERATE FORTIFICATIONS ABOUT MANASSAS JUNCTION.(This view is from a photograph taken in March, 1862. It represents the works substantially as they were at the time of the battle.) of chance. The personal sentiment, thoughnatural enough at the time, has no place inany military estimate, nor place of any kind atthis day. The battle of Manassas was, like anyother battle, a progression and developmentfrom the deliberate counter-employment ofthe military resources in hand, affected by ac-cidents, as always, but of a kind very differentfrom those referred to. My line of battle,which had twice not only withstood the ene-mys attack, but taken the offensive anddriven him back in disorder, was becomingmomentarily stronger from the arrival, at last,of the reenforcements provided for; and if theenemy had remained on the field till the arrivalof Ewell and Holmes, they would have been sostrongly outflanked that many who escapedwould have been destroyed or captured. Though my adversarys plan of

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