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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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River by the Armyof the Potomac. The Federal plan of campaign also includedthe seizure of the valley of Virginia, and ofthe railway connecting Virginia with EastTennessee and Georgia. On the first of May,General Sigel, with an army of ten thousandmen, advanced up the valley towards Staun-ton. On the fifteenth, he was defeated withconsiderable loss by the Confederates, under ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 740 General Breckenridge, at New Market, andwas driven back down the valley. GeneralHunter was appointed in Sigels place, andsucceeded in forcing his way to the vicinityof Lynchburg. Lee, becoming alarmed forthe safety of that place, sent General Early,with twelve thousand men, to its assistance. advanced upon Petersburg. At the same timeGeneral Butler moved forward with the Armyof the James against the southern worksbetween the James and Appomattox. On thesixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth, Grantmade repeated attempts to storm the Con-federate works before Petersburg and south
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BATTLE OF SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT-HOUSE. Early, at once attacked Hunter, and forcedhim to retreat by a circuitous route intoWest Virginia. In the meantime, General Grant hadreached the James River, where his army wasreinforced to one hundred and fifty thousandmen. On the fifteenth and sixteenth of Junehe crossed his troops near City Point, and of the James, but was repulsed with a totalloss of nine thousand six hundred and sixty-five men. Being unable to carry the southern worksby storm, he began the siege of Petersburg.His right rested on the James above Ber-muda Hundreds, and from this point his lineextended across the Appomattox, with his ;sd THE CIVIL WAR. left thrown out towards the Weldon railroad.During the summer and fall he continued toextend his left until he had seized the Weldonroad. From this point he sought to extendhis left still further, and to seize the South

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