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Title: History of the Civil War in America
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Paris, Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans, comte de, 1838-1894 Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868 Coppée, Henry, 1821-1895 Nicholson, John P. (John Page), b. 1842
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Publisher: Philadelphia : J.H. Coates & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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bt. The course of Warwick Creek is bordered throughoutby dense forests, through which wind tortuous roads difficult tofind, laid out on a spongy and broken soil. The upper part ofthis stream is slow and muddy, about twenty metres in breadth,with marshy banks, and commanded on both sides by slight un-dulations in the ground. It was intersected by five dams, twoof which were fornierly used to collect the water for milling pur-poses, the three others having been constructed by Magruder.They produced, by retaining the waters, an artificial inundation,which is the best of all defences. In the rear of each of thesedams, the only accessible points to an assailant, rose a small redan.The lower part of the Warwick, subject to the influence of thetide, was surrounded by a triple enclosure of hardened mud, im-penetrable canebrakes, and swampy forests, which forbade ap-proach even to the boldest hunter. This line presented all thosepeculiarities which render offensive war so difficult in America;
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Bwi*MffM,4a,im PhUa WILLIAMSBURG. 7 but Magruder was not in a condition to dispute its possession forany length of time with the powerful army which had at lengthencountered his pickets on the 5th of April. The division withwhich lie had been charged to protect the peninsula since the pre-ceding autumn numbered only eleven thousand men. The mili-tary authorities of the Confederacy had not guessed or known inadvance, as it was pretended at tlie time, the change of base ofthe army of the Potomac, or they were singularly careless andimprovident, for after McClellan had embarked the g-eatest por-tion of his troops at Alexandria, Johnston with all his forces wasstill waiting for him on the Rapidan. Disturbed by the samefears which had beset Mr. Lincoln, the cabinet of Mr. Davisdared no more than he to uncover their capital; so that on thearrival of McClellan before Yorktown with his fifty-eight thou-sand men, not a single soldier had as yet been sent to reinforceMagruder. These facts, whic

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