. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . , and here occurred a short, sharp, and obstinate hand-to-hand conflict with bayonets and clubbed muskeis. Many ofthe enemy were bayoneted in their tracks, others struck downwith the butts of pieces, and onward pressed our line. In a fewyards more it met a terrible fire from a second line, which in itsturn broke. The enemys third line now bore down upon ourthinned ranks in close order, and swept back the right center anda portion of our left. With the gallant .Sixteenth Massachusettsim our left I tried to turn his Hank, but the breaking of o
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . , and here occurred a short, sharp, and obstinate hand-to-hand conflict with bayonets and clubbed muskeis. Many ofthe enemy were bayoneted in their tracks, others struck downwith the butts of pieces, and onward pressed our line. In a fewyards more it met a terrible fire from a second line, which in itsturn broke. The enemys third line now bore down upon ourthinned ranks in close order, and swept back the right center anda portion of our left. With the gallant .Sixteenth Massachusettsim our left I tried to turn his Hank, but the breaking of our rightand center and the weight of the enemys lines caused the neces-sity of falling back, first to the embankment, and then to our firstposition, beliind which we rallied to our colors. — EunoK. Pranch, about four or five miles distant frommy headipiarters, to push forward at onceinto action on the enemys right, and if possibleon his rear, stating to him generally the con- SECOND BATTLE OF BULLRUN F05!T13X OF T=?00?SATSL\S£T, XT^^.
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