. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ABANDONING THE WINTER CAMP AT FALMOUTH. (BY EDWIN FORBES, FROM HIS SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME.) The Archduke Charles had his army in astrong and commanding position, one flankresting on the Danube, the other extendingout to the vicinity of the village of flank in the vicinity of Wagram was theweak point of the position, which Napoleondetected at once; he, therefore, ordered thetwo corps of Bernadotte and Massena, tomake a circuitous march around Wagram,and attack the flank and rear of the Austrians. At the same time to prevent the Au
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ABANDONING THE WINTER CAMP AT FALMOUTH. (BY EDWIN FORBES, FROM HIS SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME.) The Archduke Charles had his army in astrong and commanding position, one flankresting on the Danube, the other extendingout to the vicinity of the village of flank in the vicinity of Wagram was theweak point of the position, which Napoleondetected at once; he, therefore, ordered thetwo corps of Bernadotte and Massena, tomake a circuitous march around Wagram,and attack the flank and rear of the Austrians. At the same time to prevent the Austrianarmy from changing front or sending anyforce to interfere with the march of these twocorps, he attacked the Austrians in front withthe bulk of his army. The splendid fightingof the Archduke Charles held the Frencharmy in check, and Napoleon, seeing a des-perate effort must be made, organized a selectcorps of eleven thousand men with one hun-dred pieces of artillery, which he placed under. THK * ■> K Al v CORD. , EDWIN I FROM HIS SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME.) THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OE CHANCELLORSVILLE. 747 the command of General Macdonald, withorders to charge the Austrian center. Thecharge was a success, but Macdonald lostten men out of every eleven, and had everypiece of his artillery dismounted. For thischarge Napoleon made Macdonald a mar-shal of France on the field of battle. It had enabled the two corps of Bernadotteand Massena to prosecute their march undis-turbed; Bernadottes corps was in front andstruck the Austrians first, but, by one of thoseunexpected occurrences that often baffle thefinest operations in war, his troops became donald, and the crushing blow given by themagnificent fighting of Massena. Withoutthe fighting of Macdonald and Massena, thecampaign would have failed, and to Napoleon, who selected those men to do suchdesperate fighting, belongs the honor of thevictory his genius created by his strategyand grand tactics. General
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