. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ,confronting, with his small force, McClellansvast army, had haunted me through the longhours of the nights march, and I expectedto find General Lee anxious and enough, no doubt, he was; but therewas nothing in his look or manner to indicateit. On the contrary, he was calm, dignified,and even cheerful. If he had had a well-equipped army of a hundred thousand vete-rans at his back, he could not have appearedmore composed and confident. On shakinghands with us, he simply expressed his satis-faction with the result of our opera
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ,confronting, with his small force, McClellansvast army, had haunted me through the longhours of the nights march, and I expectedto find General Lee anxious and enough, no doubt, he was; but therewas nothing in his look or manner to indicateit. On the contrary, he was calm, dignified,and even cheerful. If he had had a well-equipped army of a hundred thousand vete-rans at his back, he could not have appearedmore composed and confident. On shakinghands with us, he simply expressed his satis-faction with the result of our operations atHarpers Ferry, and of our timely arrival atSharpsburg; adding that with our reinforce-ment he felt confident of being able to holdhis ground until the arrival of the divisions ofR. H. Anderson, McLaws, and A. P. Hill,which were still behind, and which did notarrive until the next day. At four in the afternoon I received an orderfrom General Lee to move at three oclock thenext morning, and take position with my divis-ion on the ex- :.4&L. treme right ofhis line of bat-tle, so as to cov-er a ford of theAntietam, andto lend a hand,in case of ne-cessity, to Gen-eral Toombs,whose brigadewas guardingthe bridge overthe Antietam,called Dy r eu- 0N THE LINE OF A scattered writers (from a photograph.) JuUrnSlde S The single grave indicates, apparently, hriHcf that some officer, killed outright, was hast- LM luge. ily buried by his men during a lull in the At daybreak fight, the big tree being chosen for a land- „„ .1 .1 t mark.— Editor. on the 17th I took the position assigned me, forming my lineof battle on the crest of a ridge in front ofthe ford just mentioned. The ground, frommy position to the creek, distant about fivehundred yards, sloped gradually down to thecrossing, just below which there was a wooded,bluff-like hill commanding the approach tothe ford from the east. Here I posted a bat-talion of skirmishers. While these dispositions, after a carefulrecon
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