. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . h the feeling that itwas to be a hap-hazard campaign on our sympathies had all been with the com-manding-general. I knew of the carping criti-cisms of his subordinates and the cold looksof his soldiers, and knew that these were thenatural results of reverses, whether the blamefor the reverses lay with the commander orotherwise. I had felt, too, that this lack ofconfidence or lack of enthusiasm, whicheverit might be, was ominous of evil for the im-pending battle. But ignorance of the enemysmovements seemed a still worse portent ofcala
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . h the feeling that itwas to be a hap-hazard campaign on our sympathies had all been with the com-manding-general. I knew of the carping criti-cisms of his subordinates and the cold looksof his soldiers, and knew that these were thenatural results of reverses, whether the blamefor the reverses lay with the commander orotherwise. I had felt, too, that this lack ofconfidence or lack of enthusiasm, whicheverit might be, was ominous of evil for the im-pending battle. But ignorance of the enemysmovements seemed a still worse portent ofcalamity. Rosecrans had effected the crossingof the river and had occupied Wills Valley,between Sand and Lookout mountains, withoutopposition, and had established his headquar-ters at Trenton. Lookout Mountain now in-terposed to screen all the enemys movementsfrom our observation. General Bragg had * Colonel Wilder says : The enemy opened fire upon the com-mand from their batteries, which was replied to by Captain LillysiSth Indiana batten,-.— m > >.**■
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