Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
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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htalong. There was one thing besides, of whichmany of us knew nothing at the time,— asystem of espionage, secret, diligent, andfierce, that marked down every man suspectedof sympathy with the enemy in a book whosename was too vile to find place on any page.This was not the mihtary secret service,— thatis to be expected wherever there is war,— norany authorized police, but the scheme ofsome of the worst of the villains who hadruled New Orleans with the rod of terror formany years — the Thugs. But the public mind was at a transparentheat. Everybody wanted to know of every-body else, Why dont you go to the front ? Even the gentle maidens demanded tartly,one of another, why each others brothers orlovers had not gone long ago. Whereas, intruth, the laggards were few indeed. Thevery cliildren w ere fierce. For now even we,the uninformed, the lads and women, knewthe enemy was closing down upon us. Ofcourse we confronted the fact very valorously, JVjEPV ORLEANS BEFORE THE CAPTURE. 921
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CAPTAIN THEODORUS BAILEY AND LIEUTENANT GEORGE H. PERKINS ON THEIR WAY TO DEMAND THE SIRRENDER OF NEW ORLEANS. we boys and mothers and sisters — and thenewspapers. Had we not inspected the forti-lications ourselves ? Was not every man intown ready to rush into them at the twelvetaps of the fire-alarm bells ? Were we notready to man them if the men gave out ?Nothing afloat could pass the forts. Nothingthat walked could get through our swamps.The Mississippi — and, in fact, she was amajestically terrible structure, only let uscomplete her—would sweep the ri\er clean ! But there was little laughter. Food wasdear; the destitute poor were multiplying ter-ribly ; the market men and women, mainlyVoL. XXIX.—96. Germans, Gascon-French, and Sicilians, hadlately refused to take the shinplaster cur-rency, and the city authority had forced themto accept it. There was little to laugh at.The Mississippi was gnawing its levees andthreatening to plunge in upon us. The citywas believed to be fu

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