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Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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MAP SHOWING THE CITY OF MOBILE AND ITS DEFENCFS. in readiness, Sherman cut loose from hiscommunications with Chattanooga and set at the head of a splendid army of sixtythousand men. He ravaged the country as 1 7^ THE CIVIL WAR. he went, leaving behind him a broad belt ofdesolation, sixty miles in width and threehundred in length. The Confederates had not sufficient forceto offer serious opposition to his march, and
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COMMODORE DAVID G. FARRAGUT. left at Shermans mercy, and was occupiedby his army on the twenty-second of Dece>J-ber. By this successful march to the s« \General Sherman had not only gotten hisarmy in a position to co-operate with Grant in the final struggleof the war, but hadstruck terror to theSouth. The mosthopeful Confeder-ate now saw thafthe triumph of theUnion cause wasinevitable and closeat hand. During the yeaiimportant opera-tions had been un-dertaken by theFederal forces onthe coast. In July,a powerful fleet un-der Admiral Far-ragut, accompaniedby a strong force oftroops under Gen-eral Granger, wassent against Mo-bile. This city wasone of the principalports of the Con-federacy and wasstrongly fortified.The entrance to thebay was command-ed by Forts Mor-gan and Gaines,two powerful worksbuilt before the war, in about four weeks he reached the coastnear the mouth of the Savannah River. Onthe thirteenth of December he stormed andcaptured Fort McAllister, which commandedthat r

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