. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . and gave him an opportunity to get back , we were not without hope. There was If he had made any progress, his loss wouldsome little skirmishing, but it did not amount probably have been greater,to anything. But when the full light of the next Such was the battle of Fredericksburg as Imorning revealed an abandoned field, General saw it. It has been asked why we did not fol-Lee turned to me, referring in his mind to the low up the victory. The answer is plain. Itdispatch I had captured and which he had goes without saying that the
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . and gave him an opportunity to get back , we were not without hope. There was If he had made any progress, his loss wouldsome little skirmishing, but it did not amount probably have been greater,to anything. But when the full light of the next Such was the battle of Fredericksburg as Imorning revealed an abandoned field, General saw it. It has been asked why we did not fol-Lee turned to me, referring in his mind to the low up the victory. The answer is plain. Itdispatch I had captured and which he had goes without saying that the battle of thejust reread, and said: General, I am losing First Corps, concluded after nightfall, couldconfidence in your friend General Burnside. not have been changed into offensive opera-We then put it down for a decoy sent into our tions. Our line was about three miles long,lines. Afterwards, however, we learned that extending over hill and dale through wood-the order was made in good faith but changed land. An attempt at concentration to throw. BRIGADIER-GENERAL THOMAS R. R. COBB. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.) Before the war, General Cobb was a lawyer. He was born in Georgia in1S20. In 1851 he published a Digest of the Laws cf Georgia. * General Lee explained officially, as follows, whyhe expected the attack would be resumed : The at-tack on the 13th had been so easily repulsed, and byso small a part of our army, that it was not supposedthe enemy would limit his efforts to an attempt which,in view of the magnitude of his preparations and theextent of his force, seemed to be comparatively insig-nificant. Believing, therefore, that he would attack us, it wasnot deemed expedient to lose the advantages of our position and expose the troops to the fire of hisinaccessible batteries beyond the river, by advancingagainst him ; but we were necessarily ignorant of theextent to which lie had suffered, and only became awareof it when, on the morning of the 16th, it was discov-ered that he had a
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