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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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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GENERAL J. E. B. STUART, Side railroad, Lees only remaining line ofcommunication with the South and South-west. Frequent encounters occurred between thetwo armies during the summer and fall, anumber of which attained the proportions of battles, but we have not space to relate themall. On the thirtieth of July a mine wassprung under one of the principal works ofLees line, and the explosion was followedby an assault by Burnsides corps. The attackwas repulsed with aloss of over five thou-sand men to the Uniontroops. During theearly autumn GeneralGrant extended hislines across the Jamesriver, and establisheda force on the northside of that river tolay siege to the de-fences of Richmond.The right of this forcewas extended as far as.the Williamsburgroad. This was thesituation of the twoarmies at the close ofthe year. In the meantimeEarly had advancedinto the valley of Vir-ginia after the defeat ofHunter. The retreatof that commander in-to West Virginia hadleft the Potomac un-guarded, and Wa

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