The Real America in Romance Brothers for Ever the Age of Union 1854-1868 PDF Download

Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230106281
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Languages : en
Pages : 112

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...Lee, to whom all things were clear as crystal, saw at once that something was wrong with Burnside. His left, yielding to Hooker, was in imminent danger; there was not a moment to spare; and he, cool and wary, gave the orders to mass men heavily on the threatened left; the center moved over; the right, where no battle was, moved over to the center and in this new alignment the fighting went on. Against the strengthened Confederate wing, Hooker and his columns broke themselves in vain. Mansfield fell; Hooker him John Sedgwick self was wounded, as was also Meagher, the gallant Irishman, and Sedgwick; now Hooker himself needed support, and the Federal center, in its turn, had to be weakened to save him. It was bitterly hard fighting, thrown away. At last, gingerly on the Confederate right, Burnside and his men made their dilatory advance. Had it been made only half an hour earlier, there would have been no force to oppose it; now, Hill was come, was here from Harper's Ferry, and Burnside might do what he would. The plan of McClellan was ruined by the failure of Burnside to attack; and the battle might end itself the best way it could. Night fell on a battlefield still thick with the smoke of contending armies. Two days later Lee withdrew from his position, and recrossed the Potomac into Virginia; his brief invasion of Maryland was over, for the time at least. The battle of Sharpsburg was to all intents and purposes a Federal victory; true, it had many of the earmarks of a drawn battle; but in its effects, it cannot be so classed. Lincoln, waiting anxiously for news in the White House, where lately so many disheartening reports had been received, was for a long Antietam Creek, Showing The Bluff Near Sharpsburg Where The PhilaDelphia Corn...