Popular history of the civil war (1894) (14759641381)

Identifier: popularhistoryof00chen (find matches)
Title: Popular history of the civil war
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Cheney, C. Emma (Clara Emma)
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Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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s offered up the prayer, And God have mercy ontheir souls ! Jackson shared his soldiers hardships, and
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i863.) Defeat and Victory. 349 pitied their misfortunes. Lee had lost the best general inthe Confederate army. The next morning, Sunday (May 3), General J. E. B.Stuart, at Jacksons request, took command of his army.As he opened the attack upon Sickles, the men rushed tothe charge, crying, Remember Jackson ! As on the daybefore, Lee assaulted on the front. Hooker was stunnedearly in the morning, by the shock of a cannon-ball against apillar of the Chancellor House, upon which he was leaning.Vox two hours he was unconscious. Much of that time theUnion army had to take care of itself, for in the confusionnobody aspmed command. It has been called a mad anddesperate battle. Every general did his best: still, Meade,Howard, and Reynolds were two miles off, taking no part init, for lack of orders. While this had been going on, Sedg-wick had attacked and carried the enemys works at Fred-ericksburg. He drove Early out, and put his own armybetween the two wings of the Confederates. He was butsev