Redeeming the republic - the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 (1889) (14769962981)

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Title: Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Subjects: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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result; a confidence which was well founded, for there was muchreason to believe that his antagonist would be at his mercy while entan-gled in the pathless thicket.(4) The country had been settled many years, but it was still a wilder-ness^—dense woods, tangled thickets, here and there a clearing, a tumble-down farm-house. The land was once almost wholly owned by a richold man, who leased farms to tenants. He had many slaves and lived ingrand style, raising tobacco and slaves. Roads were laid out before theRevolutionary War. The tide of travel then was east and west, betweenthe mountains and the sea-coast, to Williamsburg and Fredericksburg. To accommodate this, two roads were laid out—the Orange turnpike,five miles south of Germania Ford, and one and a half miles farther souththe Orange plank road. The road from Germania Ford runs south-east,the other south-west. The Wilderness Tavern is on the turnpike near itsjunction with the Germania road. The house of Mr. Lacy is south-west
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THE WILDERNESS. 85 May 5, 1864. from the tavern a short distance. It was here that Stonewall Jackson hadhis arm amputated during the battle of Chancellorsville. Early in the morning General Grant was in the saddle. It was be-tween seven and eight oclock when he reached General Meade, nearWilderness Tavern. The cavalry pickets had been out onthe turnpike and plank road, and had exchanged shots withthe Confederates. The troopsof the Fifth Corps were in thefields and woods west of Lacyshouse. General Warren says thatLee intends to fight us here,General Meade remarked. Very well, the reply. The two commanders enter-ed the edge of the woods westof the road and dismounted.General Humphreys, chief ofGeneral Meades staff, took outhis order-book and wrote a fewlines. Aides on fast horses car-ried the messages to Warren,Sedgwick, Hancock, and Sheri-dan. (B) Riding out to the front lineI saw across a field the Confed-erates under Hill coming into position, the sunlight gleaming from barrel1and b