. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ous loss of time. Lieu-tenant Washington, in execution of this or-der, went ra])idly on the Nine-mile road insearch of General Longstreet, passed theConfederate pickets, in advance of the NewBridge fork of that road, at full speed, andsoon found himself within the Federal lines— a i)risoner. About 11 A. M. Lieu-tenant Beckham rei)ort-ed to me, at GeneralJohnstons headquar-ters, that he had foundGeneral Longstreets di-vision on the Williams-burg road halted for thepurpose of allowingGeneral D. H. Hillstroops to tile by; andthat General Longst

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. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ous loss of time. Lieu-tenant Washington, in execution of this or-der, went ra])idly on the Nine-mile road insearch of General Longstreet, passed theConfederate pickets, in advance of the NewBridge fork of that road, at full speed, andsoon found himself within the Federal lines— a i)risoner. About 11 A. M. Lieu-tenant Beckham rei)ort-ed to me, at GeneralJohnstons headquar-ters, that he had foundGeneral Longstreets di-vision on the Williams-burg road halted for thepurpose of allowingGeneral D. H. Hillstroops to tile by; andthat General Longstreetwas making dispositions 123 the road to New Bridge turns oft, and re-mained there several hours, awaiting someindication or information that the attack hadbeen commenced l)y the troops under GeneralLongstreet on the Williamsburg road. Returning now to my meeting with Presi-dent Davis and General Lew on the Nine-mile r(md, just after the command of the armyhad devolved upon me, at dark on the 31st:I at once, in answer to incjuiries made by the.

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