. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . the advance into Pennsylvania seemed tomany of us to be beating the funeral marchof the dead Confederacy. Our thirty daysof mourning were over before the defeat ofLee and Pemberton. Dutv, however, was tobe done faithfully and unflinchingly to the last. * It has been necessary to omit from this paper, for magazine publication, several passages, which render it less complete as a study of the campaign and battle.— Editor^OL. XXXIII.—120. 93S CHICK AM AUG A.— THE GREAT BATTLE OE THE WEST The calmness of our Confederate Presidentmay nor have bee
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . the advance into Pennsylvania seemed tomany of us to be beating the funeral marchof the dead Confederacy. Our thirty daysof mourning were over before the defeat ofLee and Pemberton. Dutv, however, was tobe done faithfully and unflinchingly to the last. * It has been necessary to omit from this paper, for magazine publication, several passages, which render it less complete as a study of the campaign and battle.— Editor^OL. XXXIII.—120. 93S CHICK AM AUG A.— THE GREAT BATTLE OE THE WEST The calmness of our Confederate Presidentmay nor have been the calmness of despair,but it may have risen from the belief, then veryprevalent, that England and France wouldrecognize the Confederacy at its last extrem-ity, when the Northern and Southern belliger- and John F. Reynolds. We four had been inthe same mess there. Reynolds had beenkilled at Gettysburg twelve days before mynew assignment. Thomas, the strongest andmost pronounced Southerner of the four,was now Rosecranss lieutenant. It was a. GENERAL BRAXTON BRAGG. (FROM A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH.) ents were both exhausted. Should the North triumph, France could not hope to retain her hold upon Mexico. Besides, the English as is well known, were in full pathy with the South. ondition of our railroads even in 1863was wretched, so bad that my staff and my-self concluded toleave our horses in Virginia,and resupply ourselves in Atlanta. On the19I 1 of July I reported to General Bragg atChattanooga. I had not seen him since 1 hadbeen the junior lieutenant in his battery of ar-tillery at Corpus Christi, Texas,in 1845. Theother two lieutenants were George If. Thomas strange casting of lots that three messmatesof Corpus Christi should meet under suchchanged circumstances at Chickamauga. My interview with General Bragg at Chat-tanooga was not satisfactory. He was silentand reserved and seemed gloomy and despon-dent. He had grown prematurely old since Isaw him last, and showed much ner
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