Identifier: abrahamlincolnba02newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (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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intothe country. The road was thronged, thestreets blocked; men were vociferating,women crying, children screaming; wagons,ambulances, guns, caissons, horsemen, foot-men, all mingled—nay, even wedged andjammed together—in one struggling, shout-ing mass. It was Pandemonium. The negroeswere the worst, and with faces of a ghastlyash-color, and staring eyes, they swarmedinto the fields, carrying their babies, theirclothes, their pots and kettles, fleeing fromthe wrath behind them. The comparison ofa hornets nest attacked by boys is not a goodone, for there was no fight shown; but adisturbed ant-hill is altogether inadequate.They fled wildly, and camped out of range,nor would they venture back for days. Had this been all, we could afford to laughnow, but there was another side to the picturethat lent it an intensely painful aspect. It wasthe hurrying crowds of wounded. Ah me!those maimed and bleeding fugitives ! Whenthe firing commenced the hospitals began to IN THE WAKE OF BATTLE. 441
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Blackfords, or botelers, ford, from the Maryland side, (from a recent photograph.) This picture, taken from the tow-path of the Chesapeake andOhio Canal, shows the ford below Shepherdstown by which Leesarmy retreated after Antietam, the cliff on the Virginia side beingthe scene of the disaster to the 118th Pennsylvania, or CornExchange, Regiment. When Porters corps arrived at the Poto-mac in pursuit, on September 19th, Confederate artillery on thecliffs disputed the passage. A small Union force, under GeneralGriffin, moved across the river in face of a warm fire, and, scalingthe heights, captured several pieces of artillery. This attackingparty was recalled during the night. Next morning, the 20th,two brigades of Sykess division crossed and gained the heightson the left by the cement mill, while one brigade of Morells divis- empty. All who were able to pull one footafter another, or could bribe or beg comradesto carry them, left in haste. In vain we im-plored them to stay ; in vain we

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