. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . meroad with such of his command as stayed bytheir colors. He came up riding and at awalk, his leg over the horn of his saddle. Hewas perfectly cool, and looked like a farmerfrom a hard days plowing. Good-morning, I said. Good-morning, was the reply. Are they pursuing you ? Yes. How far are they behind ? That instant the head of my command aji-peared on the road. The colonel calculated,then answered: You will have about time to form line ofbattle right here. Thank you. Good-day. Good-day. At that jjoint the road began to dip intothe gorge; on
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . meroad with such of his command as stayed bytheir colors. He came up riding and at awalk, his leg over the horn of his saddle. Hewas perfectly cool, and looked like a farmerfrom a hard days plowing. Good-morning, I said. Good-morning, was the reply. Are they pursuing you ? Yes. How far are they behind ? That instant the head of my command aji-peared on the road. The colonel calculated,then answered: You will have about time to form line ofbattle right here. Thank you. Good-day. Good-day. At that jjoint the road began to dip intothe gorge; on the right and left there werewoods, and in front a dense thicket. Anorder was dispatched to bring Battery A for-ward at full speed. Colonel John A. Thayer,commanding the brigade, formed it on thedouble-quick into line; the l-irst Nebraska andthe Fifty-eighth Illinois on the right, and theFiftv-cighth Ohio, with a detached company,on the left. The battery came up on the runand swung across the road, which had been 304 THE CAPTURE OF FORT DO -<ii- BRANCH OF HICKMAN S CREEK NEAR JAMES CRISPs HOUSE — THE LEFT OF GENERAL SMITHS LINE. left open for it. Hardly had it unlimbered,beiore the enemy appeared, and firing ten minutes or thereabouts the scenes ofthe morning were reenacted. The Confeder-ates struggled hard to perfect their deploy-ments. The woods rang with musketry andartillery. The brush on the slope of the hillwas mowed away with bullets. A great cloudarose and shut out the woods and the narrowvalley below. Colonel Thayer and his regi-ments behaved with great gallantry, and thecontest was over. The assailants fell back inconfusion and returned to the H. L. \\allace and Oglesby re-formed theircommands behind Thayer, supplied them withammunition, and stood at rest waiting fororders. There was then a lull in the the cannonading ceased, and everybodywas asking, What next? Just then General Grant rode up to whereGeneral McCler
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