. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . -suddenly rose and opened with fearful volleysupon our advancing line. I turned to the bri-gade, which thus far had kept pace with myhorse, and found it standing, like a stonewall, and returning a fire more destructivethan it received and from which the enemyfled. The brigade was planted. j\Iy presencewas no longer needed, and I sought GeneralSickles, whom I found giving aid to had the satisfaction of learning that nightthat a Confederate detachment, undertakingto turn Meaghers left, was met by a portionof the Sixty-ninth New York Re

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. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . -suddenly rose and opened with fearful volleysupon our advancing line. I turned to the bri-gade, which thus far had kept pace with myhorse, and found it standing, like a stonewall, and returning a fire more destructivethan it received and from which the enemyfled. The brigade was planted. j\Iy presencewas no longer needed, and I sought GeneralSickles, whom I found giving aid to had the satisfaction of learning that nightthat a Confederate detachment, undertakingto turn Meaghers left, was met by a portionof the Sixty-ninth New York Regiment, which,advancing, repelled the attack and capturedmany prisoners. After seeing that General Sickles was in aproper position, I returned to my own corps,where I was joined by Colonel Hunt withsome thirty-two-pounder howitzers. Taking.

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