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Title: Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: White, Henry Alexander
Subjects: Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870
Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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could setthe battle in array for his annihilation. Hoodsdivision at the Church was wrecked, and Hood sentS. D. Lee to tell the chief-commander that unlessreinforcements were sent at once, the day was lost.S. D. Lee met General Lee approaching on horse-back with one orderly, half-way between Sharpsburgand the Dunkard Church. Lees wounded handwas in a sling, and the orderly was leading hishorse, Traveller. Hoods message was delivered.General Lee quietly replied: Dont be excitedabout it, Colonel; go tell General Hood to hold hisground; reinforcements are now rapidly approach-ing between Sharpsburg and the ford. Tell himthat I am now coming to his support, A momentlater General Lee pointed to McLawss division thenin sight and approaching at a double-quick. Jackson sent Earlys brigade through the WestWood south of the Church, and drove the greater partof Greenes command across the turnpike. As Earlyturned toward the north at the Church, he foundhimself on Sumners left flank. Into the fight
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THE BATTLE-FIELD OF SHARPSBURQ. 18621 Sharpsburg. 219 against Sumner rushed a new thunderbolt of war.Grigsby and Karly were made strong by sixty-fivehundred muskets under McLaws, G. T. Anderson,and Waltcer. A volcano of fire leaped from behindthe rocks and oak-trees of the West Wood. AgainstSumners front, left flank, and rear the fierce Con-federates, eight thousand strong, poured their vol-leys. Sumners six thousand were in the field westof the turnpike. Nearly two thousand Federalsoldiers fell where they stood. Sumner attemptedto face his third line, the Philadelphia brigade, tomeet the fire from the rear, but the line, saysSumner, moved off in a body to the right in spiteof all the efforts that could be made to stop it.Sumners biographer declares that this ofificer be-came panic-stricken, and eagerly moved outalong the turnpike to the northward with the frag-ments of his first and second lines to seek refugewith the Federal batteries. McLaws had come toolate to swing around against

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