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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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ADMINISTRATION OFABRAHAM LINCOLN. 721 army had been weakened by the withdrawalof General Longstreets corps, twenty-fourthousand strong, by the Confederate govern-ment, leaving him about fifty thousand men. General Hooker, upon learning of Leesweakened condition, determined to attackhim. He divided his army into two columns.One of these, consisting of the Second, Fifth,Eleventh, and Twelfth army corps, underhis own command, was to cross the Rap-pahannock above Fredericksburg andturn the Confederate position. The othercolumn, consisting of the First, Third,and Sixth corps, under General Sedg-wick, was to cross the river at Fred-ericksburg and attack the heights. Be-tween these forces it was believed thatLees army would be crushed. On the twenty-seventh of April Hookermoved off with the first column, crossedthe river on the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth at Kelleys Ford, and on the thir-tieth took position at Chancellorsville,on the left and in the rear of Lees forti-fied line. On the tw

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