Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War (1886) (14760573394)

Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
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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July 17, 1874. In this Gen-eral Longstreet, speaking of the movementson the 31st of May, says : It is proper to explain now the plan of battle, asI can speak from accurate knowledge. The )ilan wasto turn your (the Federal) left at daylight, hy throw-ing Hugers division, by a passable route for infantry,to your left and rear. As llie head of his columnpassed the swamp, D. H. Hill was to be re.ady, and Iwas to advise him to make the attack vigorously.Huger did not reach the field. At one oclock I). H.Hill proposed to bring on the battle, and it wasagreed to under the imjjression that Huger would bethere surely by the time we were warmed uji intoactual battle. The entire strength of the plan was inhis movement. On the 2d of December, 1874, GeneralLongstreet wrote to General Mindil, saying : ()ur )ilan was, as you stated, to turn your left bymoving Hugers command across the head of WhiteOak Swamp; thai to be followed by the attack ofC.eneral I». FF. IFill.on the Williamsliurg road, which
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THE SECOND DAY AT SEVEN PINES. Avas to be supported, if need be, by my command ;the command on the Nine-mile road following Hillsmovements. As you say in your article, Johnstonsplan was faultless, and in my judgment at tlie limewas the only plan that could be apjiroved by a militarymind. . . . Huger had to move over the sameground pretty much that I did. He was to (^recedeme, and I believe that he did so over part of the route.My opinion is that he moved before me. That Iwaited until sunrise, so as to give him lime to clearthe road as far as the Charles City fork, and if mymemory is correct I passed a part of his commandresting on the side of the road. , . . The only re-ports that I remember to have heard from him werethat he was moving on, and would soon be in position.General Johnston was on the Nine-mile road. Thisleft me the senior—or at least nominally the senior —officer on the Williamsburg road, and exercising moreor less command of Hills and Hugers as well as ofmy own divi